Professor Andrew Flewitt is Professor of Electronic Engineering in Cambridge University Engineering Department and is currently head of the Electrical Engineering Division. He is also a Fellow in Engineering at Sidney Sussex College. He graduated in Physics from the University of Birmingham in 1994 before moving to Cambridge to carry out a PhD in Engineering investigating the growth of hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin films using scanning tunnelling microscopy which he completed in 1998. He stayed in Cambridge as a Research Associate sponsored by Philips Research Laboratories working on the low temperature fabrication of thin film transistors. He was first appointed to a Lectureship in 2002 and was promoted to Professor in 2015. Current research interests encompass both large-area electronics, with a particular focus on thin film oxide materials, and microelectromechanical systems. He is a co-Founder of Sorex Sensors Limited which is commercialising film bulk acoustic wave sensors. He published a new textbook on ‘Electromagnetism for Engineers’ in 2022 with the aim of making this subject, which underpins so much of the technology we take for granted today, more accessible to undergraduate students, based over 20 years of supervising Cambridge students in this area. He currently serves on the University of Cambridge HR Committee. He is a Member of the Institute of Physics, a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and is a Chartered Engineer.

Hyeon Han is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). He received his Ph.D. from POSTECH in 2018 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Stuart Parkin at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics until 2024. He is the Head of the Max Planck Partner Group and serve as the Deputy Director of the Korea-Max Planck-ETH Center for Quantum Emergent Spintronics (KOMQUEST) since 2026. He was selected as a Promising Young Scientist of Korea by the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) in 2016. His research focuses on the epitaxial growth of thin films and the discovery and control of exotic physical phenomena in thin-film heterostructures, spanning both fundamental physics and emerging technologies in next-generation electronic, spintronic, and iontronic devices.

Professor Bharat Jalan, Shell Chair and professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. Prof. Jalan is a expert in materials science, renowned for pioneering work in oxide thin films, membranes, and bicrystals. He has developed novel synthesis approaches enabling atomic-level growth of complex materials. Prof. Jalan also holds graduate faculty appointment in the Department of Physics, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He also serves as a Deputy Editor of AAAS journal Science Advances.
He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Young Investigator MBE Award (2016), Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award (2016), Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Young Investigator (2017), American Association for Crystal Growth Young Author Award (2017), AVS Paul Holloway Young Investigator Award (2017), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award (2021), and recognition by the National Academy of Engineering as a highly accomplished early-career engineer (2022). He has also been honored with the international Schieber Prize (awarded to one worldwide every three years) by the International Organization of Crystal Growth (2023), AVS Fellow (2024), the VAIBHAV Fellowship by the Government of India (2024), and recently, as the JMR Distinguished Invited Speaker by the Materials Research Society at their 2024 spring meeting. Most recently, Jalan was presented with the University of Minnesota George W. Taylor Award for Distinguished Research.
Jalan has (co)-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and given more than 100 invited talks and colloquiums.
Jalan received a BS dual degree in MSE from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in India (2006) and a PhD degree in Materials Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2011). From 2011-2016, he was an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and was promoted to the associate professor in 2017, and to the rank of full professor in 2022.

Prof. Jing-Feng Li is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University, Guest Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Tohoku University. He obtained his MS and PhD degrees from Tohoku University in 1988 and 1991, respectively, and subsequently worked in industry for one year, then served as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Tohoku University until joining Tsinghua University as a full professor in 2002. His current research focuses on thermoelectric materials, ferroelectric and piezoelectric ceramics, and MEMS technologies. Prof. Li has authored four books and published over 600 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals such as Science and Nature Materials, which have collectively received more than 42,000 citations, resulting in an H-index of 107. Prof. Li is a Foreign Fellow of Engineering Academy of Japan, an Academician of World Academy of Ceramics, and a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materiomics and as Vice President of the Chinese Ceramic Society.

Dong-Seok Kim was received the B.S., the M.S., and the Ph.D degrees in electronics engineering from Kyungpook National University (KNU), Republic of Korea, in 2008, 2010, and 2015, respectively. His doctoral research concerned the growth of III-nitride epitaxial structure and the fabrication of GaN-based RF & power devices.
From 2015, he joined as a senior researcher in Korea Multi-purpose Accelerator Complex (KOMAC) of Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), and started to fusion research between semiconductors and radiations. His current research is focused on the evaluation of the radiation effects in various semiconductor devices such as HEMT, MOSFET, TFT, Solar Cells, etc.

Byongjin Ma received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1999.
After receiving his doctorate, he conducted semiconductor-related research at the Central Research Institute of Samsung Electro-Mechanics and other industrial research organizations.
Since 2007, he has been a Principal Researcher and Center Director at the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI).
He has over 20 years of experience in reliability research on semiconductor lasers and LEDs, and more recently, his research has focused on the reliability of automotive and AI semiconductors.

Dr. Takuya Maeda is an Assistant Professor (PI) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems (EEIS), Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in 2020 from the Department of Electronic Science and Engineering at Kyoto University, where he received the Kyoto University President’s Award. From 2020 to 2022, he served as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Overseas Research Fellow and a Kavli Institute at Cornell (KIC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cornell University, USA. He has been in his current position since 2022. His research focuses on materials science and device physics of wide-bandgap semiconductors -particularly nitrides- and their applications to high-power and high-frequency devices.

Ik Jae Park is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Physics at Sookmyung Women's University, Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Seoul National University in 2017. Prior to joining the faculty at Sookmyung Women's University in 2020, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Institute of Advanced Materials at Seoul National University. His research interests primarily focus on high-efficiency photovoltaic devices, with particular expertise in halide perovskite materials for tandem solar cells (e.g., Perovskite/Si tandem cells) and interface engineering for optoelectronic devices.

Somin Park is an Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS), Department of Chemistry. Before joining NUS in Aug 2024, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow both at Northwestern University and University of Toronto. She received M.S in Chemistry, and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Kentucky in 2020. Her current research focuses on molecular design and surface functionalization for various optoelectronic devices, with the aim of understanding degradation mechanisms and improving interface stability.

CAREERS

• Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, Principal Researcher/Team Leader 2002-At present
• Chairman of Thermoelectric Subcommittee, The Korean Institute of Metals and Materials At present
• Chairman of the Organizing Committee, International Conference of Themoelectric, 2019
• Board Member, The International Thermoelectric Society 2018-2012

SIGNATURE R&D PROJECTS AS PI

• Thermoelectric Power Generation Development and Demonstration (2021-2026)
• Developing standardized techniques for measuring properties of new meta-silicide thermoelectric semiconductor and modules (2018-2021)
• Developing high-efficiency thermoelectric module technology for RTG (2012-2017)
• Quantum-controlled thermoelectric materials via lattice modulation (2012-2016)

Papers

“Thermoelectric degrees of freedom determining thermoelectric efficiency“ and 70 others

Patents: 48

Tae Joon Park is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Korea University. He earned his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Purdue University and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Korea University, he served as a faculty member at Kookmin University. His research focuses on complex oxide thin films, ion-driven control of material properties, and solid-state devices for energy-efficient electronics.

Hyunseok Shim is an Assistant Professor in School of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Pusan National University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering Program from the University of Houston in 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Cunjiang Yu. Prior to that, he earned an M.S. in Physical Chemistry from Konkuk University and a B.S. in Electronics and Radio Engineering from Kyunghee University. He previously held postdoctoral research positions at The Pennsylvania State University and the University of Houston, and worked as a researcher at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST). His research focuses on flexible and stretchable electronics, developing organic and oxide semiconductor–based transistor systems for neuromorphic applications.

Dr. Jae-Chun Jeon is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (MPI-MSP), Halle, Germany. His research specializes in spintronics, quantum materials, unconventional computing devices—including neuromorphic and p-bit computing—and cryogenic devices. His research focuses on uncovering the underlying physics and functional properties of advanced materials and devices through high-speed, sophisticated electrical transport measurements and advanced data analysis techniques for developing next-generation computing elements. Dr. Jeon received his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from the University of Alberta in 2016. He subsequently continued as a postdoctoral fellow at the same institution, where he investigated strongly correlated magnetic oxide materials for spintronic and neuromorphic applications. He joined the MPI-MSP in 2018.

Dr. Tsunehir Takeuchi has been a principal professor at the Toyota Technological Institute for 12 years. He has established a research area focused on the development of functional materials through analyses of electronic states, their energy-momentum dispersion, phonon dispersions, and scattering mechanisms. He has developed high-performance thermoelectric materials and devices, thermal diodes, and heat-flow-switching devices. These achievements were based on his experiments at Nagoya University and Argonne National Laboratory, which analyzed the electron transport properties of quasicrystals and related crystalline phases, as well as the electronic structure and electron transport properties of cuprate superconductors.

1996/03: Ph.D. degree from Department of Crystalline Materials Science, School of Engineering, Nagoya University.
1996/04-1997/03: Postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Chicago.
1997/04-2002/10: Assistant Professor at Nagoya University.
2002/11/01-2013/12/31: Associate Professor at Nagoya University.
2014/01-present: Principal Professor, Toyota Technological Institute.

Uri Vool completed his Ph.D. at Yale University in December 2017, working with Professors Michel Devoret and Steven Girvin.Thereafter, he joined Harvard University as a John Harvard distinguished science fellow working with Professor Amir Yacoby. Since April 2022, Uri has been leading the Max Planck Research Group for Quantum Information for Quantum Materials (QIQM) at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (CPfS). The group works between the quantum information and quantum materials fields, developing coherent quantum systems as sensors for condensed-matter phenomena and utilizing materials to make novel hybrid quantum systems. The group specializes in two experimental techniques: Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond and hybrid superconducting electromagnetic circuits.

Mingyang Wei is an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. He was a scientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne with Prof. Michael Graetzel. He received his B.Sc in Physics from Peking University in 2016, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Ted Sargent. His research focuses on the synthesis and photophysical understanding of solution-processed semiconductors toward better solar cells, luminescent solar concentrators, and light-emitting diodes. His publications have received over 14000 citations with an h-index of 49. Mingyang was awarded a Governor General’s Gold Medal (Canada) and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for research excellence. In addition, he was named Forbes 30 under 30 (Europe) and Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers since 2022.

Prof. Das completed his Ph.D. in Physics at IISc in 2009, Bangalore, and is currently a Professor of Physics at IISc. He received the Anil Kumar Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in Physics. He is recipient of BRNS Young Scientist Research Award (YSRA) in 2014. In 2019, he was awarded the Swarnajayanti Fellowship (SJF) from the DST (India). He also received the 4th OXFORD Instruments Young Nano Scientist India Award in 2021 and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (SSB) Prize in 2023. His main research focus is on "Transport phenomena in emerging quantum nano-devices." The group utilizes advanced transport probes such as electrical conductance, thermal conductance, shot noise and thermopower to investigate new collective phases and quantum phenomena. Their studies are centered on van der Waals heterostructures of graphene, twisted bilayer graphene and other two-dimensional materials.

Junho Suh received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2011 from Caltech. After postdoctoral research at Caltech, he worked at Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science as Senior and Principal research scientist from 2014 to 2023. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). His research focuses on mechanical quantum oscillators and superconducting quantum circuits.

Wonjin Jang is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Hybrid Quantum Circuits laboratory (HQC, Prof. Pasquale Scarlino) at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of Physics and Astronomy from Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2017 and 2023, respectively. During his Ph.D., he focused on the coherent manipulation of multi-electron and nuclear spins in semiconductor quantum dot (QD) systems at the Integrated Quantum Systems Laboratory (IQSL, Prof. Dohun Kim). As a postdoctoral researcher in HQC, Wonjin is now focusing on demonstrating coherent QD–photon interfaces in superconductor–semiconductor hybrid architectures for quantum information and quantum optics applications.

Minkyung Jung currently leads the quantum transport group at the DGIST Research Institute (DGIST) as a principal researcher with tenure. His research interest is elucidating quantum transport behavior in nanoelectronic and hybrid quantum devices using high frequency, superconductor and millikelvin temperature techniques. Currently, his research in DGIST explores strong coupling between superconducting microwave resonators and ensemble spin systems/superconducting resonators.

Dr. Youngseok Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on co-optimizing quantum hardware and algorithms to enable practical quantum advantage. His interests include quantum device characterization, noise-aware algorithm design, and scalable error mitigation techniques for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) processors.
Prior to joining Ohio State, Dr. Kim was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he led experimental efforts to benchmark and validate large-scale quantum workloads and contributed to multiple quantum error-correction and mitigation projects.
He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from POSTECH, South Korea, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Kim is a recipient of the IBM Research Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award and multiple IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards for his contributions to quantum computing research.

Jaseung Ku is a senior research scientist at Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS). He received a Ph.D. in physics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA. He also did a postdoc in Syracuse University, USA. Since then he started working at KRISS mainly working on superconducting quantum computing. His research interest lies in quantum computing, superconducting qubits, superconducting electronics, quantum control and measurement, and quantum interconnect for modular architecture.

• Professor, School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, 2021~current
• Research Associate, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, 2018-2021
• Postdoctoral Researcher, Seoul National University, Korea, 2018
• Ph. D. in Physics (Seoul National University), 2018
• B.S. in Physics (Seoul National University), 2012

Professor Hyukjoon Kwon is working on quantum information theory at the intersection of quantum physics, information theory, and computer science. Professor Kwon has been studying the non-classical properties of quantum mechanical systems based on quantum resource theory, where his major research achievement is proposing a general measure to quantify quantum advantage in metrological tasks. He is also recognized for establishing quantum fluctuation theorems in the field of quantum thermodynamics and for developing a continuous-time quantum error correction protocol based on these theorems. Professor Kwon has published over 40 papers in major journals, and his current research focus is on developing new quantum algorithms and resource-efficient quantum error correction protocols.

I’m an assistant professor in the Department of Semiconductor Physics at Kangwon National University. I received my Ph.D. in Emerging Materials Science from DGIST and B.S. in Physics from Pukyong National University.
My research focuses on extreme ultrafast electron dynamics on attosecond-femtosecond time scales in condensed matters, with an emphasis on non-equilibrium quantum materials driven by strong and ultrafast external fields. I am particularly interested in discovering and designing new functionalities in low-dimensional electronic systems, including valleytronics, Floquet-engineered materials, and light-driven quantum states. My work bridges fundamental quantum dynamics and device physics by combining model Hamiltonian approaches and many body quantum theory, based on the time-dependent Schrödinger equations, exact diagonalization, semiconductor Bloch equations, and Keldysh-Dyson formalisms, also first-principles real-time TDDFT and all-electron FPLAPW calculations.

Sangwon Oh has been an Associate professor in the Department of Physics at Ajou University since 2024. He received a Ph. D. in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Northwestern University in 2013. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Schlumberger-Doll Research from 2013 to 2015 and at Yale University from 2015 to 2016. He was a research scientist at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science from 2016 to 2024. His research focuses on quantum sensing using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. His main research interests include extending the decoherence time of NV centers and adapting nanophotonic structures to improve their sensitivity. Recently, he has been working on entanglement-enhanced sensing schemes to further enhance the sensitivity.

Chae-Yeun Park is an Assistant Professor in the School of Integrated Technology, Yonsei University. He received a BS degree in Physics in 2010 and a PhD from the same University in 2017. Between 2017 and 2021, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics in Pohang, South Korea, and at the University of Cologne, Germany. He then moved to Toronto and worked at Xanadu as a Quantum Scientist from 2021 to 2024, where he focused on quantum machine learning, quantum algorithms, and quantum error correction. He also developed a significant portion of PennyLane-Lightning, the high-performance backend for PennyLane, the World's second-most widely used quantum software.

Prof. Roulleau Preden (PR) is a Research Director at CEA Saclay and leads the Nanoelectronics Group.

Internationally recognized as a pioneer in electron quantum optics experiments in 2D systems (GaAs, graphene, single-electron sources), he is now working on magic angle graphene. PR has authored 66 publications on quantum electron devices and technologies, mesoscopic physics, quantum Hall effects, and anyons, including 2 in Nature, 3 in Science, 3 in Nature Physics, 8 in Nature Communications, 8 in Physical Review Letters, as well as 2 review articles. He has participated in numerous European projects, including UltraFast Nano (Partner, FET Open), the ERC Starting Grant Cohegraph (coordinator), FLATS (coordinator, EIC Pathfinder), EleQuant (EIC Pathfinder), and Sequoia (Partner, EURAMET). Since 2024, he has served as Chair of the Basic Science Committee of the European Quantum Flagship and is a panel member of Quantera since 2025.

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Keeseong Park is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Chemistry and the Basic Sciences Research Center at DGIST. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, following his B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University. Before and during his time at DGIST, he worked as a Physics Instructor at the Korean Naval Academy, a Research Associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and a Research Associate at the University of Virginia. His research interests include strongly correlated electron systems, magnetism, superconductivity, topological properties, single-crystal and poly-crystal synthesis, and electronic, magnetic, X-ray, and neutron-scattering studies of quantum materials.

Dr. Myung-Joong Hwang is a tenured Associate Professor of Physics at Duke Kunshan University in China and an Associate Professor of the Practice at Duke University in the United States. His research focuses on uncovering novel quantum phenomena and designing controlled quantum systems across superconducting qubit platforms, trapped-ion systems, hybrid quantum systems, and atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) systems, with the goal of enabling next-generation quantum technologies such as quantum computing and quantum sensing. Dr. Hwang received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in physics from Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea. Before joining Duke Kunshan University, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Ulm University, Germany.

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Prof. Hiroki Ago received his PhD from Kyoto University in 1997. After staying at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University during 1997-1999 as a postdoc researcher, he moved to National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba as a researcher. In 2003, he moved to Kyushu University and now is a distinguished professor of Kyushu University.
His current research focuses on science and applications of nanomaterials, particularly graphene and related 2D materials. He has published about 200 papers. He received Iijima Award from the Fullerene-Nanotube Research Society of Japan (2006), Young Scientist Award from the MEXT, Japan (2008), Best Paper Award from the Japan Society of Applied Physics (2014), STAM Best Paper Award (2025).
Now he is a leader of the group research project “Science of 2.5 Dimensional Materials” supported by Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MEXT), Japan, vice director of the Semiconductor Research Center of Kyushu University, vice president of The Fullerene, Nanotube, and Graphene Research Society, and director of The Japan Applied Physics Society.

Sang-Hoon Bae is an Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis since 2021. He received his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from UCLA and was then a postdoctoral research associate at MIT. His work is to develop high-quality nanomaterials including 2D materials and 3D nanomembranes. Based on the high-quality nanomaterials, his team create new architecture where materials secrets can be discovered and 3D electronics where emerging functionality can be realized. He is a recipient of multiple early career awards such as AVS Early-Caeer breakthrough (2026), AFOSR DEPSCoR award (2025), Rising star from Advanced Materials (2025), breakthrough of the year 2024 from Falling Walls Foundation (2024), finalist for Rising Stars of Light from Light Science and Applications (2023), Hanwha Junior Faculty Award, (2023), SAMSUNG Global Research Outreach Award (2022), EMA early career researcher’s contribution (2022). He has published over 100 papers (citations >15,000 and an h-index >55).

Suk-Ho Choi is Cohwang emeritus professor at Kyung Hee University (KHU) in Korea. He received BS degree from Seoul National Univ. and MS/PhD degrees from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He spent sabbatical years at National Institute of Standards and Technology in USA, Australian National University (ANU), and Samsung Electronics, and was appointed as a Fellow Professor from 2009. Prof. Choi has worked for two major areas of research, one on the optical and electrical properties of low-dimensional (quantum dots, nanowires, graphene, and 2D materials) and topological materials, and their heterostructures, and the other on the electronic and optical device applications. He has published over 245 papers in the relevant research area. In 2023, he was nominated as a Cohwang emeritus (or Distinguished) Professor after his retirement at KHU as well as as an Honorary Professor at ANU.

Keshav Dani is currently a Professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan, leading the Femtosecond Spectroscopy (Dani) Unit. He obtained a BS from Caltech in Mathematics in 2000 and a PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley in 2006. Following this, he was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He joined OIST in Nov. 2011 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, where he sought to develop novel time-resolved multi-dimensional photoemission techniques to study photoexcited states in a variety of opto-electronic materials. In 2023, his successful application of these techniques to 2D semiconductors and energy materials was recognized as among the top ten breakthroughs across all physical sciences by the Falling Walls Foundation. In 2023, he was also awarded the 20th JSPS Prize for this work.

Luojun Du is a Professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IoPCAS). He received his joint PhD degree from Renmin University of China and IoPCAS in 2018, and conducted postdoctoral research at Aalto University, Finland, from 2018 to 2022. In 2022, he joined IoPCAS, being selected into CAS "Outstanding Foreign Introduced Talents (Category I)" with preferential support. His accolades include the Physics World 2025 Breakthrough of the Year, and 2025 2DM Young Scientist Award. His research interests focus on 2D materials and their physics. He has published 96 academic papers, including 2 in Science, 1 in Nature, 2 in Nature Rev. Phys., 2 in Nature Mater., 3 in Nature Electron., 1 in Nature Chem., 13 in Nature Commun., and 4 in PRL/X. His work has accumulated over 6,500 citations with an H-index of 36, featuring 19 papers with more than 100 citations and 13 ESI Highly Cited Papers.

Frank Gao is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2026-). He received his B.S. from the University of Toronto in 2015 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 2021, followed by postdoctoral research as a TQI Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin from 2021 to 2026. His research develops ultrafast spectroscopic techniques spanning the visible to terahertz regime to probe and control emergent phenomena in quantum and energy materials, including collective excitations and nonequilibrium phases. This work has uncovered new pathways for manipulating coupled electronic, lattice, and spin degrees of freedom and has been published in Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Physics, and Science Advances.

Tawfique Hasan is a Professor of NanoEngineering at Cambridge University Engineering Department. His research group (https://www.nanoengineering.eng.cam.ac.uk) has a core interest in nanomaterials for (opto)electronics, photonics and a wide range of sensing applications augmented with computational approaches. He is a Fellow of Optica.

Healin Im, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea. She received her Ph.D. from Sungkyunkwan University, where her research focused on the synthesis, device integration, and applications of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and low-dimensional semiconductors. Before joining Kyung Hee University, she conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working with Prof. Zakaria Al Balushi. Her research has centered on scalable and CMOS-compatible synthesis of 2D semiconductors using spin-on molecular chemistry, as well as their integration into electronic, optoelectronic, and memory devices. Her broader research interests include low-dimensional semiconductor materials, thin-film electronics, flexible and wearable devices, organic–inorganic hybrid optoelectronics, and AI-compatible sensor platforms.

Andrew Joe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Riverside. Prior to joining UC Riverside, he was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where his research focused on electrostatically created interlayer excitons. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University working with Philip Kim and earned his B.A. in Physics from Cornell University. As an experimental condensed matter physicist, his research centers on discovering novel quantum phenomena in low-dimensional materials. By combining advanced electrostatic control and nanoscale device engineering, his group investigates moiré superlattices in van der Waals heterostructures, strongly correlated electron-hole fluids, and emerging electronic and optoelectronic properties in novel quantum materials.

Hyeon-Ho Jeong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and the Department of Semiconductor Engineering at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Republic of Korea. He received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Dankook University and his Ph.D. degree from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Before joining GIST, he worked at the University of Cambridge as a postdoctoral researcher. His research focuses on intelligent nanophotonics, scalable nanofabrication technologies, advanced packaging, and micro/nanorobotics.

Dong-Ho Kang received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University in 2019 and served as a postdoctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University from 2019 to 2021. He then joined the Department of Semiconductor Engineering (Full) and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Adjunct) at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in 2021 as an Assistant Professor. His research focuses on two-dimensional materials-based in-memory computing, neuromorphic computing, and advanced photonic applications.

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Soyeun Kim is an Assistant Professor at DGIST, specializing in ultrafast optical and x-ray spectroscopy to explore emergent electronic and lattice dynamics in quantum and correlated materials. She received her Ph.D. from Seoul National University and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and SLAC/Stanford, working on THz spectroscopy, time-resolved ARPES, and XFEL pump-probe techniques. At DGIST, she leads the Correlated Matter Spectroscopy Lab and studies photoinduced phase transitions and collective excitations.

Young Duck Kim is an Associate Professor of the Department of Physics at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Republic of Korea. His research focuses on two-dimensional quantum materials, particularly hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), moiré superlattices, quantum sensing, and quantum emitters. His group investigates deep-UV electroluminescence, quantum photonics, and spin-related phenomena in van der Waals heterostructures, combining advanced spectroscopy, nano-device engineering, and quantum control techniques.

Andrej Kuznetsov was awarded with a Ph.D. degree in physics from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1992 and accomplished his habilitation in solid state electronics in 2000 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. In 2001 he joined the University of Oslo in Norway as an associate professor at the Department of Physics, where he was subsequently promoted to a full professor rank in 2003. From 2018 he acts as the Chair of the Centre of Excellence: Light and Electricity from Novel Semiconductors (LENS) - as a part of the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology at UiO. The focus is to understand novel semiconductors, searching for new fundamental phenomena and enabling new device functionalities.

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Dr. Jae-Hyun Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University. He earned his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (2009) and Ph.D. in Nano-Engineering (2014) from Sungkyunkwan University. Following his doctoral studies, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Sungkyunkwan University and a Researcher at the National Graphene Institute, University of Manchester (2015–2017). In 2017, he joined Ajou Universityas an Assistant Professor and later served as an Associate Professor until 2025. Dr. Lee's research focuses on the controllable manufacturing of two-dimensional materials and van der Waals heterostructures, aiming to advance their applications in next-generation electronics and optoelectronics.

Yangjin Lee is a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). He received his Ph.D. degree in physics from Yonsei University (2021) under the supervision of Prof. Kwanpyo Kim. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow and research professor at Yonsei University (2021-2024), and later as a research professor at Sungkyunkwan University (2024-2025). He also worked as a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the UC Berkeley (2021-2023). In 2025, he joined the Institute of Advanced Composite Materials at KIST. His research focuses on synthesizing low-dimensional nanomaterials and characterizing their atomic-scale structures using advanced transmission electron microscopy to explore their structure-property relationships.

Gilles Lérondel is a condensed matter Physicist, currently Full Professor at the University of Technology of Troyes he joined in 2000 and former head of the Physics, Materials, Mechanics and Nanotechnology department. He is member of the Light, nanomaterials and nanotechnology laboratory associated with the CNRS. He is the founder and head of the center for Innovative Nanostructured industrial Foils and related applications, an industry joint laboratory. From 2004 to 2018 he was responsible of the ONT graduate program in optics and nanotechnology. Since 2020 he has been involved in EUT+ (European University of Technology) initiative. Gilles has also served as UTT Vice-president for international relations.
After receiving his PhD in condensed matter physics, from the University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble) in 1997, he moved to Italy and Japan respectively as INFM (Italian Condensed Matter Research Institute) fellow at the IENGF (now INRiM) and JSPS fellow at the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University. In 2001 and 2002, he was awarded an Australian Research Council fellowship and co-appointed visiting fellow at UNSW. Gilles has also been visiting professor of National Central University, Taiwan in 2011. More recently from 2014 to 2000, Gilles was temporary visiting Professor at the department of energy science, SungKyunKwan University in South Korea.
Author of more than 215 publications in refereed journals and 17 patents, his general research interest lies in light-matter interaction control at nanoscale including the development of nanostructured multifunctional materials and surfaces and near field optics. He serves as topical editor of the journal of Applied Optics (OSA) and editor of the Springer series in nano-optics and nanophotonics. As part of his interest for the societal and multidisciplinary issues associated with nanotechnology i.e. innovation and sustainable development (nanogreen), he has been from 2007 to 2010 involved in the former French-Taiwanese multidisciplinary Frontiers of Science program. Since 2011, he is member of the organizing committee of the SPIE "Optics and Photonics" conference and co-chair of the nanophotonic materials and UV and higher energy photonics conference. (contact: lerondel@utt.fr)

Dr. Dong-Seon Lee is a professor in the Department of Semiconductor Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at GIST, Korea. He received Ph.D. degree from the University of Cincinnati in 2002. He was a research associate at the Nanoelectronics Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati from 2002 to 2005. Then, as a visiting scholar, he joined the Solid-State Lighting and Display Center (SSLDC) in the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He worked as a chief researcher at Seoul Optodevice Co. Ltd. from 2006 to 2008. Then, he joined GIST in 2008. He received the Prime Minister's Commendation from Korean Government (2019), Excellent Lecture Award (2011,2013). While he worked at the Samsung Semiconductor research center, he awarded Samsung Group Technology Grand Prize (1995) and Silver Award (1996). He is interested in research topics including III-Nitride epitaxy on 2D materials and related mechanism. He is also doing researches on various device fabrication and hetero-integration of Nitride-based Devices and Micro-LEDs for Display Applications.

Prof. Keeseong Park is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Chemistry and the Head Professor of the Quantum Information Science Major at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST). He received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Seoul National University and earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Following research positions at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Virginia, he joined DGIST in 2012. His research expertise lies in the single-crystal synthesis and exploration of quantum, magnetic, and topological materials through low-temperature physical property measurements and X-ray/neutron scattering atomic structure analysis. Recently, his group has extensively focused on Kagome lattice systems, making significant contributions to the field through the study of kagome metals like FeSn and ScCo6Ge6, the high-purity synthesis of the quasi-2D kagome antiferromagnet Mn3Sn, and the pioneering discovery of the novel hetero-kagome bilayer Zr3Mn3Sn4Ga, thereby advancing the understanding of physical properties in Kagome systems.

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Assistant Professor, Kyungpook National University (KNU), Korea
School of Electronic Engineering, Semiconductor and Display Engineering

Oct. 2021 ~ Jan. 2024
Postdoctoral researcher, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
Project: 2D-0D hybrid MWIR/LWIR photodetector
Supervisor: Prof. Gerasimos Konstantatos

Sep. 2019 ~ Aug. 2021
Postdoctoral researcher, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Korea
Project: 2D TMDCs exciton dynamics & optical neuromorphic device based on 2D-0D hybrid

Sep. 2014 ~ Aug. 2019
M.S. and Ph.D Integrated course, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), Korea
Energy Science & Engineering
Thesis Title: Low dimensional semiconductor hybrid device for optoelectronics application
Supervisor: Prof. Jong-Soo Lee

Mar. 2011 ~ Feb. 2014
Bachelor, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Thesis Title: Dielectrophoresis induction using the metal-insulator transition effect of VOx nanowires and decorating quantum dots on VOx nanowires using it

Dr. Minsu Seol is a Principal Researcher at SAIT, Samsung Electronics. He received the B.S. (2009) and Ph.D. (2014) in Chemical Engineering from POSTECH. Following his doctoral studies, he immediately joined SAIT, where he has pursued his research career. In 2024, he served as a visiting researcher at Stanford University, USA. His current research interests include growth and integration of 2D materials for their electronic applications.

Min-Kyu Song is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Korea University (2025–present). He received his Ph.D. in Integrated Technology from Yonsei University in 2021 and earned his M.S. and B.S. degrees from Yonsei University in 2021 and 2015, respectively. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2021–2025). His research interests include two-dimensional materials, monolithic 3D integration, in-memory computing, and ferroelectric memory. His selected publications have appeared in Science Advances (2025), Nano Letters (2024), ACS Materials Letters (2024), Nature Materials (2023), ACS Nano (2023), Nature Electronics (2022), and Nature Communications (2020).

Jooyoung Sung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Chemistry at DGIST, Korea, Republic of. Her expertise lies in femtosecond spectroscopic techniques for specifically delving into multiscale charge carrier dynamics across various classes of semiconductors. Her research interests are particularly focused on revealing the hidden and intricate spatial dynamics of charge carriers within complex nanostructured semiconductors consisting of short- and long-range orders as well as defects stemming from imperfect chemical composition, local strains etc. Through the integration of time and space-resolved spectroscopy techniques, she developed femtosecond transient absorption microscopy enabling the direct monitoring of local carrier dynamics in heterogeneous semiconductor thin films. Jooyoung has made several importance contributions to the field of perovskite and quantum dots by providing unprecedented experimental evidence of early time carrier dynamics. Notable achievements include uncovering ballistic transport dynamics of charge carriers in different classes of mixed halide perovskites, elucidating super diffusive transport of charge carriers in quantum dot solids, and offering insight into early-time charge carrier dynamics in quantum dot-in-perovskite matrix thin films. Jooyoung’s recent research focus extends to the exploration of charge carrier dynamics in heterojunctions and low-dimensional semiconductors.

Dr. Kai Zhang received his Ph. D. degree in applied physics from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2011. Prior to joining Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) as a research professor in 2015, he experienced postdoc research in Massachusetts Institute of Technology and National University of Singapore, respectively. He was the recipient of the honor and awards of the CAS Pioneer Talent Programme in 2015, Jiangsu 333 Programme Talent in 2018, Excellent Scientists and Technologists Award by The Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) in 2018, Excellent Young Scholars by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2019, Young Rising Star in Semiconductor Research by Journal of Semiconductors (JOS) in 2020, Nano Research Young Innovators (NR45) Award in 2021, First Prize of Innovation Award by China Association of Inventions in 2022, Distinguished Young Scholars by NSFC in 2023 and ICFM Frontier Materials Young Scientists Award in 2025. His research interests are in the areas of narrow-gap two-dimensional (2D) materials and devices, with research activities ranging from the controllable growth of narrow-gap 2D semiconductors (such as black phosphorus, topological materials) to the development of infrared & terahertz lasers and photodetectors. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers and holds 20 patents. He has given many Invited/Plenary talks in international conferences. He has served as a member of the China Editorial Advisory Board of IOP Publishing, Young Advisory Board of InfoMat, InfoScience, Editorial Board of JPhys Materials, Advanced Materials and Devices (Spring Nature), Frontiers of Physics and TPC Chairs and Session Chairs in various conferences.

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Sungjun Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Before joining academia, he worked as a Senior Researcher in the Next-Generation Memory Team (Technology Development, TD) at Samsung Electronics DS Semiconductor Research Center, where he contributed to process development of phase-change RAM (PRAM) and ovonic threshold switch (OTS) selector devices for future non-volatile memory technologies. He later served as an Assistant Professor at Chungbuk National University before joining Dongguk University.
He received his B.S. degree from Hanyang University in 2011 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University in 2013 and 2017, respectively. His research interests include emerging memory devices such as RRAM, FTJ, FeFET, DRAM/Flash, and selector technologies, as well as neuromorphic and in-memory computing systems.

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Dr. Seung hwan Lee is an Assistant Professor in Electronic Engineering at Kyung Hee University since 2023, specializing in neuromorphic and analog in-memory computing using emerging devices such as ReRAM, PCM, and selector-only memory (SOM) with crossbar-array integration. He worked at SK Hynix (2008–2015) before earning his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2020 under Prof. Wei D. Lu, and subsequently joined Intel (2020–2023) as a Staff Engineer contributing to 3D X-point selector devices and high-density non-volatile memory technologies. His current research focuses on scalable in-memory and reservoir computing architectures as well as novel flexible and self-healing electronic materials.

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Dmitri Strukov is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before joining UCSB, he worked as a postdoctoral associate at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories on various aspects of nanoelectronic devices and systems. He received an MS in applied physics and mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1999 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stony Brook University in New York in 2006. He is a fellow of the IEEE. Professor Strukov's research broadly concerns different aspects of computation, particularly addressing how to perform computations on various levels of abstraction efficiently. The research spans different disciplines, including material science, device physics, circuit design, high-level computer architecture, and algorithms, emphasizing emerging device technologies. Over the past decade, his primary focus was on neuromorphic computing and, more recently, on implementing hardware security circuits and accelerators for solving optimization problems using resistive-switching (“memristors”) and floating-gate memory devices.

Prof. Jianshi Tang is currently an Associate Professor and Vice Dean in the School of Integrated Circuits at Tsinghua University, where he received his BS degree in 2008. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, he worked at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He has received several awards including the Tsinghua Outstanding Young Faculty Award, MIT Technology Review “35 Innovators Under 35” China, IEEE Brain Best Paper Award, NT18 “Best Young Scientist Award”, IEEE “Best Lightning Talk”, and IBM Invention Achievement Awards, etc. His current research mainly focuses on emerging memory and neuromorphic computing. Prof. Tang has published over 200 journal articles and conference proceedings, including Nature Electronics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, IEDM, VLSI, etc. He has also filed more than 200 patents, 90 of which are granted. Prof. Tang is an Editor of journals including IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices and Journal of Semiconductors. He is an IEEE senior member, and served as Technical Program Committee Member for IEDM, IEEE-NANO, EDTM, CSTIC, etc.

Tohru Tsuruoka received his Ph.D. from Tohoku University in 1995. He then served as an assistant professor at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication of Tohoku University. In 2004, he joined the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) as a senior researcher. He currently serves as a chief researcher at NIMS and concurrently as a member of the IEEE International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS). His current research areas include atomic layer deposition of solid electrolytes, nanoionics devices and their applications to information communication and artificial intelligence systems.

Dr. Zhongrui Wang is a tenured associate professor at the School of Microelectronics at Southern University of Science and Technology, a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. Prior to joining SUSTech, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. He earned his Bachelor's degree (First Class Honors) and Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Dr. Wang's research primarily focuses on novel memristive AI hardware and algorithm co-design. He has published papers as a corresponding or first author in journals such as Nature Reviews Materials, Nature Materials, Nature Electronics (4 papers), Nature Machine Intelligence (2 papers), Nature Computational Science (2 papers), Nature Communications (3 papers), Science Advances (3 papers), as well as conferences like DAC, ICCAD, NeurIPS, ICCV and IEDM.
His work has received over 22,000 citations on Google Scholar (h-index of 51) and has been featured in over 40 news outlets, including IEEE Spectrum, Scientific American, Science Daily, Phys.org, and ACM Communications.
Dr. Wang serves on the editorial boards of journals such as Materials Today Electronics, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and APL Machine Learning.

Dr. Xia is the Dev and Linda Gupta Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass Amherst and head of the Nanodevices and Integrated Systems Lab (http://nano.ecs.umass.edu). Before joining UMass, he spent three years at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, where he demonstrated the first memristor/CMOS hybrid chip. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2007 from Princeton University. Dr. Xia's current research interests include beyond-CMOS devices, enabling fabrication technologies, and integrated systems with applications in machine intelligence, reconfigurable RF systems, and hardware security. He has received a DARPA Young Faculty Award, an NSF CAREER award, the Barbara H. and Joseph I. Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, an Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, and the Chancellor's Medal (the highest recognition bestowed upon faculty by UMass Amherst). He is a Highly Cited Researcher, recognized by Clarivate, and an elected IEEE Fellow "for contributions to resistive memory arrays and devices for in-memory computing."

Wentao Xu is currently a distinguished professor at Nankai University, fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). He was funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. His research mainly focuses on materials chemistry for flexible electronics, neuromorphic electronic devices, artificial sensorimotor neurons, and electrohydrodynamic nanowire printing techniques. He has published more than 100 papers as the corresponding author in Science, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials and other journals. He won the first prize of Tianjin Natural Science Award (2022, Personal Ranking 1st).

Prof. Ye Zhou is a Distinguished Professor in the Institute for Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, China. He was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2021, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) in 2022. He received his B.S. from Nanjing University, M.S. from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Ph.D. from City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include neuromorphic materials, devices and systems.

Minho Choi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the AI Graduate School at UNIST, South Korea, where he leads the Photonic Intelligence Lab. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from KAIST, specializing in semiconductor physics and quantum photonics. He later expanded his research into metasurfaces and optical neural networks during his postdoctoral work at the University of Washington. His current research integrates optics, electrical engineering, and computer science to develop optimal optics for computer vision tasks. These innovations support autonomous systems, robotics, surveillance, and intelligent imaging technologies. Honors and recognitions include the KAIST Presidential Fellowship, Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies Fellowship, the National Scholarship for Science and Engineering, and acknowledgment for his BK21 representative Ph.D. work.

Lan FU is a Professor and Head of the Department of the Electronic Materials Engineering at the Research School of Physics, the Australian National University. Lan FU’s main research interests include design, fabrication and integration of optoelectronic devices (LEDs, lasers, photodetectors and solar cells) and chemical sensors, based on low-dimensional III-V compound semiconductor structures including quantum wells, self-assembled quantum dots and nanowires grown by metal-organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD). Prof. Lan FU is the Fellow of Optica and Academician of Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM). She was the recipient of the IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship and Distinguished Lecturer Award, Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship, ARF/QEII Fellowship and Future Fellowship. She also served on the ARC College of Experts from 2019 to 2021. In 2023, she was recognized by Cosmos Magazine, Australia, as “50 Women of the Cutting edge of science in Australia”. Professor FU is the current Chair of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee on Materials Science and Engineering, President of the Australian Materials Research Society (AMRS), and Chair of IEEE Nanotechnology Council Chapters & Regional Activities Committee. She is the Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, and Editorial Board Member of Opto-Electronic Advances and npj Nanophotonics.

Hui-Hsin Hsiao received her B.S. degree in Physics and Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics (GIPO) at National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. From 2015 to 2016, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Solid State Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. In 2018, she joined the faculty of the Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) and was promoted to associate professor in 2021. In 2022, she became an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering at NTU. Since February 2025, she has also held a joint appointment with GIPO.
Her research interests include linear and nonlinear plasmonics, nanophotonics, mid-infrared thermal emitters, metamaterials and metasurfaces, and optoelectronic devices. She has received several research awards and recognition from different government and professional organizations, including the Chieh-Shiung Wu Fellowship from the Physical Society of the Republic of China (2014), the Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program Scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Technology (2014), the Best Research Paper Award for Postdoctoral Fellows (2015), the Youth Photonics Award from the Taiwan Photonics Society (2022), and the Best Paper Award at the IWH 2025 Conference.

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Job History
Associate Professor, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea 2025.09~present
Assistant Professor, Kangwon National University, Republic of Korea 2020.09~2025.08
Postdoctoral Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories, USA 2019.01~2020.07
Postdoctoral Researcher, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea 2018.10~2019.01
Postdoctoral Researcher, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea 2018.03~2018.09

Education
Ph.D in Physics, Seoul National University 2014.03~2018.02
- Thesis: “Strong coupling of dielectrics with terahertz gap plasmons within metallic nano-slots”
- Supervisor: Prof. Dai-Sik Kim
M.S. in Physics, Seoul National University 2012.03~2014.02
- Dissertation: “Enhanced absorption of liquid thin layer on terahertz nanoantennas”
- Supervisor: Prof. Dai-Sik Kim
B.S in Physics, Seoul National University 2006.03~2010.02

Tao Jiang is a Professor at the School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University. He received his B.S. in Physics from East China Normal University in 2010 and his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from Fudan University in 2015. From 2016 to 2019, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He joined Tongji University as a Professor in 2020, where he established a research group focusing on low-dimensional nonlinear photophysics and nanoscale optical microscopy. His research explores optical phenomena in low-dimensional materials and micro/nano-structures, and develops optoelectronic devices operating across the visible to mid-infrared spectrum at the micro- and nano-scale. He has authored or co-authored over 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Photonics. For more information, please visit: https://ipoe.tongji.edu.cn/MDOM_en.htm

Dongha Kim is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Korea University. He earned his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from KAIST (Ph.D. advisor: Prof. Min-Kyo Seo), completing his doctoral work in 2022. From 2023 to 2025, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University’s Ginzton Laboratory, working with Prof. Shanhui Fan. Since joining Korea University in September 2025, he has been leading the Space-Time Optics (STOP) Laboratory, focusing on nanophotonics and spatiotemporally structured light. He is a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the Korean Physical Society.

Hyungjin Kim is an Assistant Professor in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University in 2014 and 2016, respectively, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley in 2021. Before joining Yonsei University, he also worked at Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow conducting research on improving the properties of nanoscale semiconductors and solving the challenges in their next-generation device applications. During his Ph.D., he was a recipient of Samsung Scholarship and he has published first-authored papers in international peer-reviewed journals including Nature and Science. His research is at the multidisciplinary interface between materials science, electrical engineering, chemistry, and physics where he pursues energy-efficient nanoelectronics and optoelectronics.

Vasily Kravtsov has graduated from M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) and received a PhD degree in Physics from University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) in 2017. He has worked as a research assistant at the Physics Department of CU Boulder and Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), focusing on experimental research in near-field optics, nanotechnology, and femtosecond laser pulses. In 2018 Vasily joined ITMO University (Saint Petersburg, Russia) as a leading research fellow. Currently, Vasily is an assistant professor and group leader at the School of Physics and Engineering, ITMO University. His research interests include two-dimensional quantum materials, light-matter interactions, ultrafast spectroscopy, and nonlinear nano-optics.

Soyeong Kwon is an assistant professor in the Department of Optical Engineering at Kongju National University, South Korea. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Physics from Ewha Womans University. She was a UC Irvine Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow (2023) in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where her research focused on nanoscale characterization and strain–exciton coupling in atomically thin van der Waals materials. At Kongju National University, her research focuses on light–matter interactions and excitonic quantum systems in two-dimensional van der Waals materials, with the goal of advancing optoelectronic and quantum technologies as well as nanoscale mechanical properties engineering.

Dangyuan Lei is Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Professor of Physics (joint appointment) at the City University of Hong Kong, and was Provost’s Visiting Professor of Physics at Imperial College London. He received a PhD degree in Physics from Imperial College London in 2011, under the supervision of Professor Stefan Maier (a world-renowned pioneer in nanophotonics) and in close collaboration with Professor Sir John Pendry (the Father of Metamaterials). His PhD thesis was awarded the prestigious Anne Thorne PhD Thesis Prize. His research interest centers on nonlinear, quantum and intelligent nano-photonics and ultrafast spectroscopy of photon-exciton-phonon coupling in two-dimensional semiconductors, with particular interest in the nanoscale cavity-enhanced light-matter interaction physics and intelligent photonic and optoelectronic nano-devices for sensing, imaging, energy conversion and saving. He has published 282 journal papers, including 3 Nature Energy, 1 Nature Materials, 12 Nature Communications and 3 Science Advances, receiving 18600 citations and an h-index of 77. He has given 2 plenary talks, 13 keynote speeches and 130 invited talks. His work on multiphoton-pumped, ultralow-threshold perovskite lasing was selected as one of the Top 50 Most Read Nature Communications Articles of 2020 in Physics. His co-invention of a smart radiative cooling coating was highlighted as “Editor’s Choice” of Science (2020), and its applications in the thermal management of green buildings and skin electronics received two Gold Medals from the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (2022 & 2023). His recent invention of the Plasmonic Printing Technology (PPT) was highlighted in Nature Materials, Nature Synthesis and Light: Science & Applications (by Professor Eric Mazur of Harvard University).

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Seungjun Lee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Kyung Hee University. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Physics from Kyung Hee University. Prior to joining the faculty, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities.

His research focuses on the fundamental physics of quantum materials and their applications in nanoelectronics, nano-optoelectronics, spintronics, and quantum information technologies. He develops and applies theoretical and computational approaches, including density functional theory, linear-response theory, and machine learning, to understand, predict, and design next-generation quantum materials and devices.

Battulga Munkhbat is an Associate Professor in the Quantum Light Sources group at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he leads research on nano- and quantum photonics, quantum light sources, and superconducting single-photon detectors. He received his PhD in Photonics from Johannes Kepler University Linz in 2016 and subsequently held researcher positions at Chalmers University of Technology. His research has led to advancements in tunable quantum light sources, strong light–matter interactions, and atomically thin superconducting detectors, and has been published in leading journals such as Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, and Science Advances. He is the recipient of the ERC Starting Grant and the Villum Young Investigator Grant.

Dr. Iris Niehues is a Junior Professor at the Physics Institute of the University of Münster, Germany, where she has been heading the Quantum Nanophotonics Research Group since December 2023. She completed her Ph.D. in 2020 at the same institution, investigating the opto-mechanical properties of 2D semiconductors. Following her doctoral studies, Dr. Niehues undertook a postdoctoral research position with Rainer Hillenbrand's group at the nanoGUNE institute in San Sebastián, Spain, where she began applying scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy techniques.
Currently, her research concentrates on investigating the fundamental optical properties of 2D materials and single-photon emitters at the nanoscale, with the goal of developing innovative functionalities for quantum technology applications

Prof. Okamoto received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1998. From 1998 to 2000, he was a researcher at the Venture Business Laboratory of Kyoto University, followed by a period as a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) from 2000 to 2002. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology from 2001 to 2005, and subsequently as a Senior Research Fellow in Physics at the same institution from 2005 to 2007. From 2007 to 2011, he was a Research Associate Professor in Electronic Science and Engineering at Kyoto University. From 2011 to 2018, he was an Associate Professor at the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University. Since 2018, he has been a Professor in the Department of Physics and Electronics at Osaka Prefecture University, which was renamed Osaka Metropolitan University in April 2022 following a university integration. His current research interests include nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterial-based optical devices, with an emphasis on controlling light–matter interactions.

Yeonsang Park received his B.S.(1996) degree in Astronomy, M.S.(2001), and Ph.D.(2007) degrees in Physics at Seoul National University, respectively. From 2007 to 2009, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon (INL, CNRS 5270), Lyon, France. In 2010, he joined Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and worked as a researcher with several projects on metamaterials, metasurface, and their application to optoelectronic devices. Since 2020, he has been a Professor in the Departments of Physics at Chungnam National University, Korea. His current research is focused on developing novel nanophotonic devices and their applications based on fundamental physics and advanced nanofabrication technology.

Shan Yuwei Associate Researcher at the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She obtained her Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the Department of Physics, Fudan University in 2019 and joined the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics in the same year. Her current research focuses on the response mechanisms and modulation of nonlinear optical properties in on-chip integrable low-dimensional materials and their interfaces. In parallel, she is developing a self-built, multi-field-modulated, angle-resolved nonlinear optical platform capable of automated in-situ acquisition of micro-area angle-resolved nonlinear spectra.Dr. Shan has served as the Principal Investigator for one project under the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Fund and has participated in two NSFC Key Program projects. She has authored or co-authored over 30 research papers in prestigious journals including Natureand Nature Photonics, with total citations exceeding 2,000. Additionally, she holds three authorized patents.

Dr. Myoung-Gyun Suh is a Group Head and Senior Scientist at NTT Research, Inc., where his primary research focuses on optical precision measurements and parallel information processing systems. He has developed innovative chip-based optical sources and explored their applications in precision spectroscopy, astronomy, optical communications, and computation. His more recent work pioneers hyperspectral information processing using optical frequency combs for neuromorphic computing and compressive sensing. Dr. Suh earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech in 2017, an M.S. from National Taiwan University in 2006, and a B.S. summa cum laude from KAIST in 2004. Previously, he worked at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (2006–2011), where he developed GaN LEDs and high-efficiency III–V solar cells. A Senior Member of Optica (2024) and a recipient of the Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award (2020), he currently serves on the selection committee for the Optica Adolph Lomb Medal (2025–2027) and on the organizing committee for the Special Symposium at CLEO 2026.

Prof. Fengqiu Wang obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge. Prior to that, he obtained a B.S. in electronics from Peking University, China. He is currently professor at the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, and is an OSA Fellow. His group is currently focused on investigating ultrafast and nonlinear optical properties of emerging semiconductor materials for photonic applications.

Prof. Wang has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers, with a total citation of over 11,000 times. He serves as co-chair/ technical committee member for top-tier international conferences on lasers and electro-optics, including CLEO, CLEO-Pacific Rim, and ACP

Professor Andrzej Wysmolek earned his doctoral degree from the University of Warsaw and has been a fellow of both the Foundation for Polish Science and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has completed numerous research internships at prestigious international institutions, including the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart and the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Grenoble.
He is currently a faculty member at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, where his research focuses on the optical properties of semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures, with particular emphasis on hybrid systems involving graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and hexagonal boron nitride.
Professor Wysmolek has co-authored over 200 scientific articles, which have been cited nearly 3,000 times. He has also played an active role in academic leadership, serving two terms as Vice Dean for Student Affairs at the Faculty of Physics. In addition, he supports student innovation through the Makerspace@UW project and currently chairs the Polish Main Committee of the Physics Olympiad.

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SeokJae Yoo is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Inha University. He also serves as the Director of the Chiral Nanophotonics Center. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Korea University in 2016. Before joining the faculty at Inha University, SeokJae Yoo conducted extensive research as a Research Professor at Korea University in Prof. Q-Han Park’s group and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, in Prof. Feng Wang’s group. His current research interests focus on the nanophotonic control of light-matter interactions, quantum phenomena in low-dimensional systems, including Luttinger liquids and van der Waals materials, and the development of advanced spectroscopic techniques for novel materials.

Prof. Hoon Hahn Yoon double majored in Device Physics & Mechanical System Design and Manufacturing for his B.S. degree from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology and delivered the graduation speech as a valedictorian at the commencement ceremony in 2014. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the same university in 2020. He worked as an Intern Researcher at the Single-Electron Quantum Device Team, Quantum Technology Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science in 2012, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Physics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in 2020, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University from 2020 to 2022, and a Staff Engineer at the Device Part, Process Architecture Team, Foundry Business Department, Samsung Electronics from 2022 to 2023. He then joined the Department of Semiconductor Engineering (Full) and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Adjunct) at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in 2023 as an Assistant Professor. He was awarded the Global Ph.D. Fellowship from the National Research Foundation of Korea in 2015, the Academy Research Fellowship from the Academy of Finland in 2022, and the 2DM Emerging Young Scientists Award from the Journal 2D Materials by IOP Publishing in 2025. His research interests focus on 2D materials for artificial intelligence sensors, more than Moore devices, electron quantum optics, and quantum phase transitions.

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Yuljae Cho is an associate professor at Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Korea University in 2013 and his PhD in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford in 2018. Before joining Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford from 2018 to 2019 and a research associate at the University of Cambridge from 2019 to 2020. His research interests lie in advanced materials and devices research for self-powered electronics and energy harvesting technology.

Education:
2016 – 2021 Imperial College London, UK
Department of Physics, Centre for Processable Electronics, MRes + PhD
2010 – 2016 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Chemical Engineering BSc and MSc, Branch of Materials

Matyas is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research and a visiting researcher at Imperial College London working on solution-processable materials for solar energy conversion devices (solar cells, solar hydrogen generation and biomass oxidation). During his 8 years of research at Imperial College London he has contributed to the minimizing losses in perovskite-based solar cells and photoelectrodes to improve their efficiency and stability. He has also gained some useful experience working as a Scientific Editor at Joule.

Shuzi Hayase received his Ph.D. from Osaka University in 1983, after completing his undergraduate studies there in 1976. He joined the R&D Center at Toshiba Corporation in 1978, where he worked until 2000. From 2001 to 2019, he served as a Professor at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT), and from 2016 to 2018, he held the positions of Executive Director and Vice President of KIT. Since 2019, he has been a Professor at the University of Electro-Communications (UEC). From 2009 to 2017, he was also a Supervisor of the PRESTO project (JST), “Photoenergy Conversion Systems and Materials for the Next Generation Solar Cells.” His numerous honors include the Innovative PV Award (2024), the Hamakawa Award from the Japan Solar Energy Society (2022), and Fellowship of The Society of Polymer Science, Japan (2020), among others.

Soonil Hong received a Ph.D. degree in Materials Science & Engineering from the Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (GIST), Korea at 2018. He has worked as a Research Professor in the Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies (RISE), Korea. He has also worked as a Senior Researcher at Hanwha Solution for the development of silicon/perovskite tandem solar cells. Dr. Hong is currently conducting research on solar cell development as a Senior Researcher at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Korea. His research interests are fabrication and characterization of printed perovskite solar cells and modules, and large-area perovskite/silicon tandem cells.

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Jinho Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Incheon National University, specializing in organic and perovskite semiconductors for next-generation optoelectronic devices. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST). Prior to joining his current institution, he held research positions at Imperial College London and the Max Planck Institute. His research centers on energy band alignment, charge transport, trap engineering, and interfacial physics and chemistry. He has contributed to the development of high-performance organic and hybrid perovskite solar cells and photodetectors. His recent work explores charge transfer mechanisms at perovskite/organic heterointerfaces and investigates design strategies for efficient and stable device architectures. He actively engages in interdisciplinary collaborations bridging semiconductor physics, materials chemistry, and device engineering.

Jongchul Lim  is associate professor in the department of energy engineering at Chungnam National University, Rep. of Korea. He was awarded the Ph.D. at the Pohang University of Science and Technology, Rep. of Korea in 2015 for research on hybrid solar cells and optoelectronics. Prof. Lim continued his research on optoelectronics of perovskites as a research associate for 5 years with prof. Henry J. Snaith at University of Oxford. Prof. Lim’s research group, ‘Optoelectronics and Energy device labroatory’ started at Chungnam National University from 2020 March. His research has been focused on photophysics and optoelectronics of perovskite-based applications including solar cells, LEDs and photodetectors using novel spectroscopic techniques.

Prof. Yen-Hung Lin is an Assistant Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he leads a research group developing next-generation perovskite thin-film devices for energy, optoelectronics, and display applications. Before joining HKUST in 2022, Prof. Lin held research positions at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London and worked as a senior R&D engineer at AU Optronics in Taiwan, focusing on advanced display technologies.
He received his PhD in Experimental Solid State Physics from Imperial College London, following earlier degrees from National Taiwan University and a Master's degree at Imperial. Prof. Lin is a Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Awardee and a recipient of the Imperial College Solid-State Physics Prize, recognising his contributions to solution-processed electronics and perovskite semiconductors. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of PRX Energy, a flagship open-access journal of the American Physical Society.

Chang Woo Myung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Energy, Department of Energy Science, and Department of Quantum Information Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and his Ph.D. from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in 2019. He conducted postdoctoral research at ETH Zurich/USI and the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on machine learning potentials, quantum computing algorithms, and first-principles simulations of energy materials and 2D materials.

Professor Jongsung Park is an Associate Professor at Gyeongsang National University, researching next-generation photovoltaic technologies. He received his Master's and Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) under Professor Martin Green. His main research area is vacuum-processed inorganic thin-film solar cells, focusing on the development of high-efficiency and durable photovoltaic materials. His research applications extend from terrestrial energy systems to photovoltaics for space applications.

Somin Park is an Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore (NUS), Department of Chemistry. Before joining NUS in Aug 2024, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow both at Northwestern University and University of Toronto. She received M.S in Chemistry, and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Kentucky in 2020. Her current research focuses on molecular design and surface functionalization for various optoelectronic devices, with the aim of understanding degradation mechanisms and improving interface stability.

Sep. 2021~ Chungnam National University (CNU)
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Associate Professor

Dec. 2018~
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT)
Energy Materials Research Center
Senior Researcher

Oct. 2017~Dec. 2018
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Dr. Tüysüz group
Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany Dr. Harun Tüysüz group

Sept. 2017~Oct. 2017
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Prof. Taiho Park group
Pohang, Republic of Korea

March 2011~ Aug. 2017
Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Taiho Park

Feb. 2007~ Feb. 2011
University of Seoul
BS., Chemical Engineering

Mingyang Wei is an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. He was a scientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne with Prof. Michael Graetzel. He received his B.Sc in Physics from Peking University in 2016, followed by a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Professor Ted Sargent. His research focuses on the synthesis and photophysical understanding of solution-processed semiconductors toward better solar cells, luminescent solar concentrators, and light-emitting diodes. His publications have received over 14000 citations with an h-index of 49. Mingyang was awarded a Governor General’s Gold Medal (Canada) and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for research excellence. In addition, he was named Forbes 30 under 30 (Europe) and Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers since 2022.

Seok Joo Yang is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Gyeongsang National University, Republic of Korea. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 2020, followed by postdoctoral research in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. His work centers on developing advanced optoelectronic materials and device technologies, with a particular emphasis on halide perovskite systems and their emerging applications.

Tiankai Zhang is now a full professor in Southeast University. He received his B.S. degree from the Kuang Yaming Honors School of Nanjing University and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Chair Professor and IEEE Fellow, Prof. Jianbin Xu. He conducted postdoctoral research successively in the group of Prof. Jianbin Xu at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and in the group of internationally renowned materials scientist Prof. Feng Gao at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, Sweden.
His long-term research focuses on the fundamental studies and applications of crystallization and doping optimization of organic and hybrid semiconductors for optoelectronic devices. He has published 15 papers as first or corresponding author in prestigious journals including Science, Nature, Nature Communications, Joule, JACS, Advanced Materials, and Advanced Energy Materials, etc. He holds one authorized PCT patent, with a total publication record of over 50 papers, accumulating nearly 4000 citations and an H-index of 29. His current research interests include flexible optoelectronic functional materials and their device applications, as well as the design and development of novel sensing and neuromorphic computing devices.

Uri Banin is a Full Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, holding the Alfred and Erica Larisch Memorial Chair. He was the founding director of the Hebrew University Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2001-2010), was the founder (2009) of Qlight Nanotech that developed the use of nanocrystals in displays (acquired by Merck in 2015). He served as an Associate Editor of the Nano Letters (2013-2021). Banin is studying the chemistry, physics and applications of nanocrystal quantum dots and is best known for inventing new types of semiconductor quantum dots and hybrid semiconductor-metal nanocrystals, and for his studies on their unique chemical and physical properties with relevance for applications in nanotechnology in the fields of displays, alternative energy especially photocatalysis, materials science and quantum technologies. Recently he introduced “Quantum Dots Chemistry” to create coupled molecules from colloidal quantum dots serving as artificial atoms. He published over 255 papers that have been widely cited and is an inventor of over 30 patents in nanotechnology. He received numerous awards including the Israel Chemical Society Prize of Excellence (2018) a Miller fellowship at UC Berkeley (2019), and the Rothschild prize in chemical sciences (2024). He received the ERC advanced investigator grant twice.

Marco Califano did his undergraduate studies at the University of Trento (Italy) and obtained his PhD. from the University of Leeds, U.K. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Alex Zunger's Solid State Theory group, at the National Renewable Energy Lab. (Golden, CO, U.S.A.), and in the Nanoscale Theory Group, led by Prof. Tapash Chakraborty, at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada). In 2006 he was awarded a prestigious University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society, which he held at the University of Leeds, where he established his research group that specializes in computational modelling of semiconductor nanomaterials

• Sungkyunkwan University, Associate Professor (2026 ~ present)
• Dongguk University, Associate Professor (2024 ~ 2026)
• Dongguk University, Assistant Professor (2020 ~ 2024)
• University of Toronto, Postdoctoral Fellow (2017 ~ 2020)

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Philippe Guyot-Sionnest has been a Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Chicago since 1991. His research group created the first bright core/shell quantum dots based on CdSe/ZnS, and pioneered several advances in the field of colloidal quantum dots, including intraband spectroscopy, electrochemical doping and solid-state ligand exchange for ohmic conductivity, and mid-infrared colloidal quantum dots. He received his PhD in 1987 from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Yuen Ron Shen, where his doctoral work introduced infrared–visible nonlinear vibrational surface sum-frequency spectroscopy. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1983 from École Polytechnique, France.

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Joongoo Kang is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Chemistry at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST). He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from KAIST, South Korea. Prior to joining DGIST, Dr. Kang served as a Senior Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the USA. His current research focuses on quantum mechanical theory of functional materials and the development of machine learning frameworks for autonomous mechanistic discovery in materials physics and chemistry.

Research Interests

• Commercial CIS (small size pixel, global shutter, low-noise image sensor)
• SWIR (shortwave infrared) image sensors
• LiDAR (d-ToF, FMCW)
• Electron detector for microscope
• FLIM (fluorescence lifetime imaging) image sensor

Employment & Education

Emmanuel Lhuillier did his PhD at Onera, the French aerospace lab, under the supervision of Emmanuel Rosencher working on quantum well-based infrared detectors. He then joins Guyot- Sionnest’s group as a post-doctoral scholar at University of Chicago working on HgTe NC and their mid-infrared photoconductive properties. Since 2015, he is a CNRS researcher and drives a group at Sorbonne Université dedicated to the optoelectronics of confined nanomaterials, with a clear focus on NC-based infrared applications. He receives CNRS bronze medal in 2022 and became director of research in 2025. His picture is acquired with a camera which infrared active layer is made of quantum dots

Clément Livache is an Assistant Professor at Ecole polytechnique and IP Paris. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (engineering degree) and from Sorbonne University (MSc) in 2016. In 2016, he joined the team of Emmanuel Lhuillier at ESPCI Paris and Sorbonne University for his PhD. There, he worked with narrow bandgap nanomaterials for infrared applications, notably toward a new class of colloidal quantum dot infrared photodetectors. He received a PhD from Sorbonne University in 2019 and joined the team of Victor Klimov in the Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2020, working on quantum dot ultrafast spectroscopy and quantum dot laser devices. He joined the Solid State Chemistry group of the PMC laboratory at Ecole polytechnique in late 2023, and is building a quantum dot lab dedicated to the exploration of nanomaterial photophysics and their use in advanced devices.

Oleg Prezhdo obtained Diploma in Theoretical Chemistry from Kharkiv University, Ukraine, in the theory group originating from V. A. Fock. He completed PhD within 4 years with Peter Rossky at UT-Austin. After a 1-year postdoc with John Tully at Yale, he joined University of Washington in 1998, achieving Associate and Full Professor in 2002 and 2005. Currently, he is a Guido Daub Professor at the University of New Mexico. He served as Editor in the Journal of Physical Chemistry and Surface Science Reports, and is now an Executive Editor for the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Recipient of multiple national and international awards, he held visitor positions and professorships in France, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, Japan, China, Korea, Iceland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. With 600 publications, 400 invited talks, and h-index of 100, his research focuses on far-from-equilibrium processes in nanoscale, condensed matter, molecular and biological systems.

Ayaskanta Sahu is an AssociateProfessor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. His research focuses on investigating transport phenomena in new classes of nanostructured hybrid materials that have promise for optoelectronic and catalytic energy conversion. Prior to joining NYU, he was a Materials Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. He holds a B. Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. He spent a couple of years at ETH Zurich as a visiting scientist before joining the Molecular Foundry. He is a recipient of the 2021 DARPA Young Faculty Award and the 2023 DARPA Director's Fellowship for contributions to infrared detector technology.

Dong Hee Son received his B. S. and M. S. from Seoul National University, Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Texas, Austin. After completing postdoctoral work at University of California, Berkeley, he joined Texas A&M University as a faculty member. Currently, he is a professor of chemistry at Texas A&M University. His research interests include the photophysical properties of semiconductor nanostructures and applications in photonics, photocatalysis and quantum information science.

Dr. Francesco Di Stasio is a tenured Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy), where he leads the Photonic Nanomaterials group. He earned his PhD in Physics from University College London after completing his studies in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Genoa. His research focuses on quantum dots for light generation and manipulation, with applications spanning communication, illumination, display technologies, and photonics. He has received funding from both the European Research Council and the European Innovation Council, publishing 87 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 5 patents in the field of quantum dot-based devices and organic light-emitting diodes. In the past, he worked as research scientist for Cambridge Display Technology in the UK (Sumitomo Chemical group) and as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at ICFO in Spain.

Alex earned his Ph.D. in physics of semiconductors from Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of Sherbrooke and the National Research Council of Canada. His early work focused on the theoretical modeling of laser-assisted quantum well intermixing, self-assembly, and many-body problems in epitaxial and colloidal semiconductor quantum dots.
In 2011, he joined the Nanomaterials for Energy Group at the University of Toronto to lead work on nanocrystal surface engineering and synthesis for photovoltaics. Since 2018, Alex has served as a faculty member in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. His research currently focuses on materials for energy storage and novel materials discovery, leveraging high-throughput experimentation and machine learning.

Prof. Jianyu Yuan is now the Deputy Dean of the Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM) at Soochow University. Yuan received his B.S. (2011) and Ph.D. (2016) degrees in Soochow University. From 2001-2004, he was a joint Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined the faculty of FUNSOM at Soochow University in 2016 and served as an Associated Professor from 2016-2021. His research interests is centered on the design and synthesis of organic conjugated materials and inorganic quantum dots for optoelectronic applications.
He is now co-authored 1 book chapter, 13 issued patents and over 200 paper in prestigious chemistry and materials science journals like Nature, Nature Energy, Nature Commun., Joule, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. etc., which received over 11,000 citations (H-index: 62). Recognition for his research in the past 5 years include World’s Top 2% Scientists, 2022 Youth Changjiang Scholar, 2023 Science and Technology Award by Jiangsu Province, 2022 National Youth Skilled Worker, 2021 Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by CAST, 2021 Excellent Youth Fund by Jiangsu Province. Prof. Yuan has been awarded nearly 20 research projects form MOST, NSFC, Jiangsu Province and companies.

Hao Zhang is currently a tenured associate professor in Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry at Tsinghua University in 2007 and 2010. He obtained Ph.D. in Chemistry at University of Chicago in 2015, followed by a short postdoctoral work at the same place. He continued his postdoctoral study in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University from 2016 to 2018. Hao joined Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University as an associate professor in Jan 2019. His research interests include surface chemistry-mediated 2D/3D patterning of nanomaterials, integrated optoelectronic devices, and their applications in displays and bioelectronics. His work has been published in Science, Nature, Sci. Adv., Nat. Commun., JACS and other journals, with citations over 10000 times and an H index of 41.

Ivan Infante is an Ikerbasque Research Professor at BCMaterials in Leioa, Spain. He obtained his PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Geneva. He later held independent research positions at the Universidad del País Vasco and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and served as a Research Scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the surface structure and electronic properties of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, combining advanced theoretical modeling, experiments, and artificial intelligence approaches. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles and has presented invited and contributed talks at major international conferences in the field of semiconductor nanocrystals.

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Dr. Chan Hwa Hong received his Ph.D. from the Korea University School of Electrical Engineering and has been serving as a Senior Researcher at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) since 2018. At ETRI, he has served as the Chief Technical Staff (CTS) of the Intelligent Sensor Research Laboratory. Starting with the development of transparent electrode materials and devices for bendable touch panels, his research currently focuses on biosignal sensor platform technologies based on flexible and stretchable substrates. His main research areas include the design and fabrication of highly stretchable and reliable flexible substrates, as well as the development of skin-attachable cardiovascular sensor platforms built upon flexible pressure sensor materials and devices. In particular, he has integrated multiple types of biosensors including ballistocardiography (BCG) and electrocardiography (ECG) onto a single stretchable substrate to enable real-time blood pressure monitoring, and his key strength lies in establishing a highly reliable platform technology that maintains stable sensor performance even under repeated mechanical deformation. Looking ahead, he aims to commercialize healthcare products based on these technologies and to develop artificial skin technology for robotic hands.

Prof. Raivo Jaaniso is a leading expert in sensor technologies and nanomaterials, specializing in graphene-based and 2D heterostructure devices for ultra-sensitive gas detection. He has pioneered the development of gas sensors using diverse nanomaterials and advancing AI-driven electronic nose systems. His innovations include layered heterostructures on micro-hotplates and -lightplates, achieving record sensitivity for air pollutants. As principal investigator of major research initiatives and Estonia’s representative in the Graphene Flagship, he has contributed to the roadmap for 2D-material sensors, aiming towards wafer-scale solutions. Author of 85 scientific publications, including recent works in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and 2D Materials, co-editor of Semiconductor Gas Sensors (Elsevier, 2020).

Ji-Soo Jang, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nanoengineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Republic of Korea. His research centers on advanced gas sensing technologies based on nanomaterials, with a particular emphasis on chemiresistive sensors, artificial olfaction systems, and molecularly engineered sensing layers for highly selective and sensitive detection of environmental and biomedical gases. His work integrates nanocatalysts, porous materials, and machine learning to develop next-generation electronic nose platforms for applications such as disease diagnostics and environmental monitoring.
Prof. Jang received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from KAIST in 2020 and completed postdoctoral training at Yale University. Prior to joining SKKU, he was a Senior Research Scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). He has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers, including in Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, and Energy & Environmental Science, and holds an H-index of 51. His contributions to gas sensor technologies have been recognized through multiple awards and successful technology transfers.

Kyung-In Jang is a Full Professor in the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering at DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology), where he leads the Bio-Integrated Electronics Laboratory. He is also the Founder and CEO of ENSIDE Corporation, a company specializing in next-generation implantable and wearable medical devices.

His research focuses on bio-integrated electronic systems, soft materials, neural interfaces, semiconductor-inspired device architectures, and Physical AI platforms for personalized, closed-loop medical technologies. Prof. Jang has pioneered battery-free “stealth” wireless neural recorders for primate neuroscience, large-area soft neural interfaces, and advanced peripheral nerve interface technologies. He has published in top-tier journals including Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, Science Advances, ACS Nano, and Advanced Functional Materials, with more than 14,000 citations and an H-index of 46.

He is the recipient of distinguished national awards such as the 2024 Minister of Science and ICT Award for National Strategic Technologies, and he leads major national and international R&D programs in neural engineering and bioelectronic medicine. His laboratory collaborates broadly with global leaders across neuroscience, semiconductor physics, robotics, and medical device engineering.

Dr. Hanbit Jin is a Senior Researcher at ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2019 under Professor Takao Someya. His research focuses on wearable healthcare sensing, tele-haptics, and flexible electronic skin systems. His work has been published in Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Advanced Materials, and ACS Nano, and he was recognized with the Outstanding Researcher Award at ETRI in 2022.

Seung-Kyun Kang is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU), where he has been a faculty member since 2019. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from SNU, completing his undergraduate degree with honors in six semesters and earning his doctorate in 2012 with a focus on the mechanics of multiscale materials. He conducted postdoctoral research in bioelectronics and biomedical materials under Professor John A. Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and Northwestern University. Before joining SNU, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering at KAIST. His research integrates materials science, electronics, mechanics, and bioengineering, with interests spanning wearable, implantable, and bioresorbable medical devices, neuromorphic systems, and soft robotics.

Felix Sunjoo Kim is a tenured professor of Chemical Engineering at Chung-Ang University (Seoul, Korea). He received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at the Seoul National University in 2003. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington in 2012. He has been investigating the charge-transport properties of polymer semiconductors and their applications in electronics, energy conversion, and neuromorphic systems. He has contributed more than 110 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, which have been cited over 6000 times. He received several awards and honors, including ACS Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Chemistry (2014), finalist of APS Frank J. Padden Jr. Award for Excellence in Polymer Physics Research (2012), Chung-Ang University Excellent Young Faculty Grant (2018), and early tenure at the Chung-Ang University (2023).

Byeongmoon Lee is an Assistant Professor at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST). He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) from Seoul National University (SNU) in 2014 and 2020, respectively. Before joining DGIST, he worked at the Soft Hybrid Materials Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) as a postdoctoral researcher. He then moved to Zhenan Bao’s group at Stanford University as a postdoctoral researcher. His research focuses on advanced human–machine interfaces, human sensory augmentation, and robotic interfaces based on skin-integrated sensors and electronics.

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EDUCATION

2013. 8 – 2017.12
Ph.D in Chemistry (Concentration: Physical Chemistry)
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, IL, United States of America
Advisor: Prof. John A. Rogers

2008. 8 - 2010. 8
M.S. in Chemistry (Concentration: Physical Chemistry)
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Advisor: Prof. Chaok Seok

2003. 3 - 2008. 8
B.S. in Chemistry Education, B.A in Economics (dual major)
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Certificate: Grade 2 Regular Teacher Qualification

WORK EXPERIENCE

2020.9 – Present
Associate Professor
Division of Advanced Materials Engineering
Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Korea

2017.9 – 2020.9
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center (ISRC)
Material Science and Engineering, Seoul National University
Advisor: Prof. Cheol Seong Hwang

2010. 7 - 2013. 4
Assistant Researcher
LG Chem., Daejeon, Korea
Division: Battery R&D (Subject: Li ion battery for electric vehicle)

Naoji Matsuhisa is an Associate Professor at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) in the University of Tokyo. His research interest is in stretchable electronic materials and devices for the application in next-generation wearable devices, and human-computer interfaces. He received his PhD degree from the University of Tokyo in 2017. Then he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Stanford University in the U.S. In 2020, he joined the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Keio University as an Assistant Professor. In 2022, he became an Associate Professor at Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) in the University of Tokyo. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers (>15,000 citations). He is the recipient of >20 awards including MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 in 2022, and Project Management Institute Future 50 in 2023.

Prof. Inkyu Park received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from KAIST (1998), UIUC (2003) and UC Berkeley (2007), respectively, all in mechanical engineering. He has been with the department of mechanical engineering at KAIST since 2009 as a faculty member and is currently a full professor and KAIST Endowed Chair Professor. His research interests are micro/nanofabrication, smart sensors for healthcare, environmental and biomedical monitoring, and flexible & wearable electronics. He has published more than 220 SCI journal articles (45+ cover articles) and 50+ patents in the area of MEMS/NANO engineering, and his publications have been cited more than 22,290 times (h-index=69) as of Jan 2026. He is a recipient of HP Open Innovation Research Award (2009-2012), KAIST Prize for Academic Excellence (2021), KAIST Grand Prize for Technology Innovation Award (2019), Top 10 Nanotechnology of Korea (2023), and Minister Award from Ministry of Science and ICT (2023). He is also a fellow of Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) and a general member of National Academy of Engineering of Korea (NAEK). At present, he holds the position of editor for Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (Elsevier), a top-ranked SCI journal in the field of chemical sensor technology.

Dr. Young Min Song is a KAIST Endowed Chair Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea. Prior to joining KAIST, he held faculty positions at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), where he progressed through the ranks from Assistant to Full Professor, and at Pusan National University as an Assistant Professor. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Information and Communications from GIST in 2006 and 2011, respectively, and a B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Yonsei University in 2004. From 2011 to 2013, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Dr. Song’s research interests include advanced optoelectronic devices and systems, multifunctional nanophotonics, and optical healthcare systems. He is a Senior Member of Optica, and a member of SPIE and MRS. He currently serves as a Senior Editor of the IEEE Photonics Journal and as an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Optical Microsystems (JOMs) and Soft Science. He is also a member of the Young Korea Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST), Korea.

Dr Radu Sporea is Associate Professor in Semiconductor Devices at the University of Surrey, and holds an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship (2021-2026). He was RAEng Research Fellow (2011-2016), EPSRC PhD+ Fellow (2010-2011) and PhD researcher (2006 – 2010). Radu studied Computer Systems Engineering at “Politehnica” University, Bucharest, and worked as Design Engineer for Catalyst Semiconductor Romania on ultra-low-power CMOS analog circuits. Radu was named EPSRC Rising Star in 2014 and received the I K Brunel Award for Engineering in 2015, the Vice Chancellor’s award for Early Career Teaching in 2017 and the Tony Jeans Inspirational Teaching distinction in 2018. In 2021, he was a finalist for Innovator of the Year prize at Surrey. His research focuses on advanced thin-film transistors for improved manufacturability, large area sensors and sensor arrays for smart environments, and paper-based electronics and physical-digital interaction. He was chair of the IEEE EDS UK and Ireland chapter between 2022 and 2024.

Dr. Yan Wang is currently a tenured Associate Professor at Guangdong Technion. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Monash University in 2018 and completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 2021. In soft electronics field, she has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, including more than 40 as first or corresponding author, in leading journals such as Science Advances (3 papers), Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Chemical Society Reviews, and Advanced Materials, with an h-index of 34 and five ESI Highly Cited Papers. And she is also an inventor on multiple patents filed in Australia, Japan, the United States, and China. Her work has earned several awards, including Stanford University & Elsevier Scopus TOP 2% Scientists (2021-2025), the Guangdong Province Major Talent Program (Youth), ACS Publications Award for Women Scientists in Surface and Interface Science (2025), the JMCC Emerging Investigators Award (2025), the Nanoscale Emerging Investigators Award (2022), and the 2018 Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad Award. Her research achievements have attracted international media attention, including coverage by CNN, Herald Sun (Australia), and Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (Japan). At Guangdong Technion, her group focuses on developing materials and implementing soft wearables in real-world applications for ambulatory health care and the Internet of Things.

Zongyin Yang completed his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and MSc in Optical Engineering at Zhejiang University. He moved to Cambridge for PhD studies in 2014. He was awarded his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2019, following which he served as a postdoctoral researcher in the same department until 2020. That same year, he was selected as a Research Fellow at King's College, University of Cambridge. Zongyin is one of ten individuals to be awarded the Extraordinary Chinese Self-Financed Students Abroad in 2019. Zongyin joined Zhejiang University as a Hundred-Talent Program Professor in September 2020. He got the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars and was also selected as 'Innovators Under 35, China' by MIT Technology Review in 2021. He was selected as Alibaba DAMO Academy Young Scholars Award in 2023. He became a tenured professor and was selected as the Qiushi distinguished professor of Zhejiang University in 2024.
Zongyin's research is primarily focused on the miniaturization of optoelectronic devices. He has achieved significant breakthroughs, such as proposing synthesis methods for bandgap graded semiconductors and creating the world's smallest spectrometer and wavelength-tunable nanolaser. His contributions to science have been published in top-tier journals, including Science (×2), Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Light, Nano Letters, and JACS, where he is the first/corresponding author. Zongyin co-published a book with Springer Publishing Company. He holds over 35 patents in China, alongside several international patents. Furthermore, Zongyin has been invited to serve as a regular reviewer for Nature Photonics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, and Science Advances. He is the Youth Editor of The Innovation (IF=32.1), Chinese Laser.

Dr. Spyros Yannopoulos has been a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Patras (UP), since 2023. Prior to this, he was a Research Director at FORTH/ICE-HT, where he led the Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Laboratory. His current research focuses on the rational and scalable synthesis of various nanomaterials using physical and chemical methods, such as laser-assisted fabrication of graphene-based structures and large-scale CVD-grown few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides. These efforts aim to enhance their properties for applications in energy conversion and storage, photovoltaics, gas pollutant sensors, photocatalytic reactors, and flexible/stretchable electronics. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed journal articles, contributed more than 15 invited chapters to international books, and is the co-inventor of three international patents. Currently, he coordinates three Horizon 2020 collaborative projects focused on novel materials and processes for electrochemical energy storage (supercapacitors and batteries) and has led or participated in over 30 international research projects. He has presented at more than 150 international conferences, delivering over 50 invited talks. Since January 2024, he serves on the Coordination Board of the Graphene Flagship.

Ph.D Cheong-Gu, Cho (CG Cho) is a process scientist who developed the leading-edge process of Samsung's DRAM, NAND, Foundary, and is known as a Semiconductor Journeyman. Based on his knowledge of physics, he can analyze the plasma properties and surface reactions that occur in the actual etch process as mathematical models. As a recent Samsung Principal engineer, CG is focusing on technology development of HARC etch process (DRAM/NAND) and module integration scheme development. CG successfully contributed to the implementation of cutting-edge R&D projects, including 8th generation 3D NAND (cryo-etch), AI analyze (CAE), and 7/10nm node foundary device, within semiconductor process development. CG holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Physics at Seoul National University and is based on experiment of controlling spin orbit torque device properties that control a single atomic layer.

Dr. Sang-Joon Cho, a passionate advocate for Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM), currently spearheads the Research Equipment Business Unit. His mission is to broaden the understanding and application of AFM technology across various fields.

With a robust background in research and development, Dr. Cho has served as a director at the Application Technology Center of Park Systems Corp, leading a diverse team of 58 scientists and engineers from both Korea and abroad. His responsibilities extended beyond application development and technical writing to include sales, where he held the position of Executive Vice President.

Dr. Cho’s leadership was also instrumental during his 12-year tenure as the R&D director at Park, where he managed a team of 30 dedicated professionals. His expertise and dedication have led to the successful execution of numerous national projects. He oversaw three national projects with a combined budget exceeding $20M in 2025, aimed at advancing AFM technologies and their industrial applications.

In recognition of his significant contributions to science and technology, Dr. Cho was honored with South Korea’s Science and Technology Medal in 2021. His commitment to the scientific community extends beyond his professional duties. He serves as the Chairman of Sub-Committee 9 (Scanning Probe Microscopy) of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Additionally, he holds the position of Vice President at the Korea Nanotechnology Research Society (KoNTRAS) and President at the Korean Society of Surface Analysis (KoSSA), contributing to numerous national planning committees.

Research Interest

1. Graphene-based electronics: Invention of graphene barristor and investigation of the device physics.
2. Scanning probe microscopy: Scanning gate microscopy study on a tunable Schottky junction.
3. Barristor-based sensor platform: Investigation of the barristor-based sensors, including biosensors, photodetectors, and gas sensors.

Education

February 2005
Ph.D., Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
"Metal-Polypyrrole-Metal Nanowire: Growth, Structure, and Transport"
Advisor: Young Kuk

February 1999 M.S.,
Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Advisor: Young Kuk

February 1997 B.S.,
Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Employment

March 2023 – Present
Professor at Konkuk University

February 2022 – Present
CEO at A Barristor Company

March 2017 – Feburary 2023
Associate Professor at Konkuk University

March 2013 – February 2017
Assistant Professor at Konkuk University

August 2006 – February 2013
Research Staff Member at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

December 2005 – July 2006
Postdoctoral Researcher at The Center for Atomic Control of Heteroepitaxy, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science

March 2005 – November 2005
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Science in Nanometer Scale in the Inter-University Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University.

March 1999 – April 2001
Research Assistant at Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University.

Education

2014. 09. ~ 2018. 08.
Ph.D. (Material Science and Engineering)
Chonnam National University, S. Korea

2012. 03. ~ 2014. 08.
M.S. (Material Science and Engineering)
Chonnam National University, S. Korea

2005. 03. ~ 2012. 02.
B.S. (Material Science and Engineering)
Chonnam National University, S. Korea

Experiences

2024. 10. ~ Present
Senior Researcher, R&D Center, MIRAE S.P. CO., LTD.

2018. 07. ~ 2024.09.
Senior Researcher, R&D Center, SCOTRA

2018. 09. ~ 2019. 07.
Post-doctoral researcher in Chonnam National University
Optoelectronics Convergence Research Center

Dr. Oc-Yeub Jeon is a Senior Researcher in the Digital Analysis Division at the National Forensic Service (NFS), where she has worked for more than 20 years since joining the organization in 2006.
She specializes in speaker recognition and audio analysis, and her work centers on extracting reliable information from complex voice and audio evidence, with a focus on identifying acoustic patterns that support accurate forensic interpretation.
With extensive experience in forensic audio examination, her research and casework contribute to establishing objective, evidence-driven standards for audio-based investigations.
Throughout her long career at NFS, Dr. Oc-Yeub Jeon has remained committed to improving the reliability and transparency of forensic audio analysis, supporting fair investigations and advancing the broader field of digital forensics.

Chae-Woong Kim received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea, in 2016.
Prior to joining ISAC Research Inc., he worked at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER), Symphony Energy Co., Ltd., and the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), where he conducted research and development on CIGS thin-film solar cells, silicon photovoltaic modules, and flexible photovoltaic devices.
He is currently the Chief of the Process & Coating (P&C) Center at ISAC Research Inc., Daejeon, Republic of Korea. He leads the development of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technologies for both planar substrates and nanopowders. His current research focuses on ALD processes for display devices, high-k dielectric materials, oxide semiconductors, and capacitor applications, as well as nanopowder coating technologies for batteries, quantum dots (QDs), multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), and power inductors.

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Sangwook Kim received his B.S. degree from Seoul National University in 2001, and Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012. In 2006, he joined the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, South Korea, where he has engaged in the research of oxide semiconductors, active metasurface devices, and ferroelectric devices. He is currently the Project Leader on the development of oxide semiconductor transistors for the application of memory and logic devices.

Taeho Kim received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from KAIST, Republic of Korea, in 2007. He is currently a Distinguished Engineer with the HBM Design Team, Division of DRAM Development, SK Hynix, Icheon, Republic of Korea. From 2011 to 2022, he was involved in core circuit development for Phase-Change Memory, Resistive RAM (ReRAM), and Spin-Transfer Torque MRAM (STT-MRAM). Since 2023, his work has focused on high-bandwidth memory circuit design and digital design for customized HBM base dies. His research interests include advanced memory architectures, high-speed memory BIST architecture, and next-generation AI memory architecture.

Dr. Namseop Kwon received his B.S. degrees in Physics and Materials Science & Engineering and his Ph.D. degree in the School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience & Bioengineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea, in 2009 and 2015, respectively.
Currently, he is a Researcher at GenGenAI, where he has been working since June 2025. Prior to joining GenGenAI, he spent over a decade at Samsung Electronics, serving as a Staff Engineer at Samsung Research and a Staff Researcher at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT).
His research background spans computer vision, sensor fusion, and computational imaging. He has extensive industrial experience in developing algorithms for Camera ISP, 3D sensing (ToF, Structured Light), and Visual-Inertial SLAM. His technical expertise includes deep learning-based super-resolution, motion estimation, and on-device calibration systems.
He holds numerous U.S. patents related to 3D image processing, SLAM, and illumination devices.

Dr. Seungyoon Ma is a Principal Research Engineer and Part Leader of Technology Team 1 at KASHIYAMA K TECH. He received his Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from Jeonbuk National University in 2018. His research interests include plasma applications for environmental, biomedical, and semiconductor technologies. He has published 24 SCI/SCIE papers, contributed to 14 patents, received four academic presentation awards, and delivered 25 conference presentations.

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Sungjin Jang is an engineering professional with a robust background in mechanical systems, automotive components, and industrial robotics.
Currently leading teams at Clobot, he oversees innovative field robotics projects by leveraging extensive R&D and corporate experience.
Key Career Highlights:
·Clobot | Team Leader, Field Robotics Division (2022.06 - Present)
·Sebang Lithium Battery | Professional (2021.05 - 2022.06)
·Valeo Automotive | Professional (2018.11 - 2021.05)
·Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH) | Researcher (2012.12 - 2014.03)
·Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) | Researcher (2008.06 - 2012.12)
·Korea University Graduate School | M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2009.06 - 2012.02)

Jinhyung Park received his B.S and M.S degree in Chemistry from Korea University, South Korea and PhD degree in Chemistry from University of Turin in Italy, 2013. From 2014 to 2015, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Grenoble, France. During the academic years, he spent in the field of photovoltaic such as dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) and quantum dot solar cell (QDSCs). Subsequently, he joined Air Liquide in 2016, where his research has primarily focused on the deposition processes integral to memory applications, with a specific emphasis on both DRAM (Dynamic Random-Access Memory) and NAND memory technologies.

Insoo Seo is currently a director of MetariverTechnology Co. Ltd.
He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Hanyang University.
His research interests are computational fluid dynamics and particle simulation and computer simulation which are based on GPU computing.

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Simon is CEO of Paragraf, the company he founded in 2018. With a diverse background in physics, engineering and materials science, he spent nearly 20 years in the fields of compound semiconductor materials, devices, and applications. Working in multiple scientific and technology disciplines led to the innovation of a novel manufacturing technique for graphene fabrication and subsequently Paragraf.
Today Paragraf is the only company in the world capable of producing graphene-based electronics at scale, the company’s products are transforming the worlds of magnetic sensing and biosensing in application spaces ranging across electrification of vehicles, quantum computing, medical diagnostics and renewable energy to name a few. Simon has so far raised over $150m in private capital to finance Paragraf’s growth, in the next 5 years the company will make graphene and other two-dimensional materials standard in the semiconductor world, enabling industry to reap the high performance, low power consumption benefits of these extraordinary materials.
Simon is passionate about developing technologies that can solve today’s enduring challenges and beneficially affect global society. He believes that new materials hold the key to transformational products that will deliver a brighter more sustainable future.

Dr. Mikko Utriainen has >30 years experience of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technology in fundamental science and applications. He has been an author in >40 peer-reviewed publications and he has work history in academics and industry. Presently, he is a founder and CEO of Chipmetrics Ltd, which commercializes innovative metrology chips and wafers for ALD and related process development and control.

Education
2002. POSTECH, B.S of Chemistry
2010. POSTECH, Ph.D of Physical chemistry

Career
2010.11-2016.10 Senior Researcher of ETRI Technology Commercialization Support Team.
2016.11-Present Team Leader of Analysis and Technology, Semiconductor Business Division, HB Solution.
2023-Present Convener of TC201/SC4/SG1 (Non-destructive depth profiling)
2025-Present Member of the Technical Committee on General Chemistry (KS)
Research interest: atomic layer deposition.

Dr. Chanwoo Yang is a Principal Researcher at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), where he has been conducting research on sputtering and laser-based processes and materials for flexible electronics, energy devices, and sensor applications. His current research interests include plasma process monitoring and simulation for process intelligence, laser-reactive polymer composite materials, and functional thin-film and coating technologies.

Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 2011, where his doctoral research focused on flexible thin-film transistors based on organic and oxide semiconductors. From 2011 to 2018, he worked as a Senior Researcher at Samsung Display, where he was involved in the research and development of large-area sputtering processes for IGZO oxide semiconductor thin-film transistor backplanes.

Since joining KITECH in 2019, Dr. Yang has expanded his research scope toward advanced manufacturing processes and functional materials, particularly in sputtering, laser direct structuring, flexible and printed electronics, plasma-based process diagnostics, and laser-induced photoreactive polymer composites.

Dr. Van Luan Nguyen is a Staff Researcher at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Samsung Electronics from 2017. Prior to this, he received the B.S. (2010) and Ph.D. (2015) in Energy Science from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Sungkyunkwan University (2015-2017). His current research interests include interface engineering and integration of 2D materials for their electronic applications.

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EDUCATION

August 2005
Sungkyunkwan University
Doctor of Philosophy - Electronic Materials Engineering

• Finalist for Young Vacuum Scientist Award at the 21st Annual Conference of the Korean Vacuum Society, Daejeon, Republic of Korea (2001)
• Excellent Poster Award at the 2003 International Meeting on Information Display, Daegu, Republic of Korea (2003)
• Graduate Student Scholarship, Sungkyunkwan University (2004)
• The Brain Korea 21 Scholarship, Sungkyunkwan University (1999-2005)

February 2001
Sungkyunkwan University
Master of Science - Materials Science and Engineering

• The Brain Korea 21 Scholarship, Sungkyunkwan University (1999-2005)

February 1999
Sungkyunkwan University
Bachelor degree - Department of Materials Science and Engineering

• Undergraduate Student Scholarship, Sungkyunkwan University (1998)

EXPERIENCE

2011 - Present
Gachon University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
Associate Professor, Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Energy & Information Technology
Researched on the following research areas:

• Ultrahigh-efficiency, renewable energy harvesting/storage/exchange system with controllability for improving human sustainability through scientific breakthroughs and interfacing in the research fields of advanced nanomaterials, energy, environment, and information & communication technology.
• Optical and electrical characterizations of biological cell activities at the single molecule level in vivo or in vitro, and revealing the neuron/nanomaterials hybrid system by using electro-optical characterization tools for nanotechnology-based neuroscience.
• Demonstration of systems for synchronization found in nature and nonlinear dynamics systems.
• Electronic purification/separation of single-walled carbon nanotubes into metal/semiconductors.

• Head of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Energy & Information Technology, Gachon University (2020-2022, 2013-2015)
• Member of IEC TC113 Mirror Committee, Republic of Korea (2025), participating as a national member of the Mirror Committee under IEC TC113 (Nanotechnology Standardization)
• Member of IEC TC113 Nanomaterials Expert Committee, Republic of Korea (2024-2025), serving as an expert in the Nanomaterials Subcommittee of IEC TC113 for international standard development
• Expert Committee Member, Korea Nanotechnology Electrotechnical Standards (KS) under IEC TC113 (2023-2025), participating in the Korea Electrotechnical Standards Committee under IEC TC113 focused on nanotechnology standardization
• International Expert and Project Leader (PL), IEC TC113 WG 8 and WG 11 (2022-2025), contributing as an international expert and project leader in Working Groups 8 and 11 for IEC TC113 nanotechnology standardization activities
• Overseas Visiting Scholar (OVS) supported by National Research Foundation of Korea and EU (ERC), and a member of St. John's College (a life-time association), University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2015)
• A member of Invitational Delegation of Nanotechnology Korean Professors to the Government of Saudi Arabia (2014)
• A member of the Committee for Technological Innovation at the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (2011-present)
• A member of the Committee for Documentation of National Road Map for Industrial Technology at the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (2011-2012)
• Listee in Marquis Who's Who in the World (2015-2019)

2008 - 2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
Postdoctoral Associate (advisor: Prof. Michael S. Strano) at Department of Chemical Engineering
Researched on the following research areas:

• Realization of exciton antennae and concentrators from core-shell and corrugated carbon nanotube filaments of homogeneous composition (Nature Materials, 2010)
• Demonstration of coherence resonance in a single walled carbon nanotube ion channel (Science, 2010)
• Fabrication of chemically driven, carbon-nanotube-guided thermopower waves (Nature Materials, 2010)
• Synthesis of bi- and trilayer graphene solutions (Nature Nanotechnology, 2011)

2006 - 2007
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Postdoctoral Research Associate (advisor: Prof. Michael S. Strano) at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

• Researched on room temperature carrier transport through large diameter bundles of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube (Materials Research Bulletin, 2014)

2005 - 2006
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea
Postdoctoral Researcher in School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering

• Researched on design and field emission characteristics of carbon nanotube pasted cathodes for traveling-wave tube applications (IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 2006; Diamond and Related Materials, 2006)
• H. Ryou, M. Han, H.-S. Kim, S. C. Jung, W. Jang, J.-H. Han*, "Surfactant-based Purification of Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Using Gel Chromatography for Electronics Applications," Nano Convergence Conference 2021, Jan. 19-20 (2021).

I (John Hong) am an Associate Professor at Kookmin University, South Korea. I hold a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California,
USA, and a D.Phil. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford, UK. My research focuses on diverse synthetic methods, especially solution-based processes for the design and fabrication of structured and non-structured organic/inorganic materials. Those materials can be applied to various energy-related applications for high energy conversion and storage performance.

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Hyojung Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Optical Engineering at Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Republic of Korea. Her research focuses on ultrafast spectroscopy, optoelectronic property analysis of emerging materials, and international standardization for quantum and nanomaterial characterization. She serves as a project leader and expert in several IEC/ISO standardization activities, especially in establishing standards for the reduction degree of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and for single-photon emission in quantum materials, within IEC TC113 and IEC/ISO JTC3.

Dr. Eunsang Kwon is an Associate Professor at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Science, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Tohoku University in 2001. Following postdoctoral research at RIKEN (2001–2005) and the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), Tohoku University (2005–2008), he joined his current department as an Assistant Professor in 2008 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. His research interests encompass theoretical and computational chemistry as well as nanoscale functional materials, with a particular focus on the structure, properties, and applications of endohedral metallofullerenes.

Yangjin Lee is a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). He received his Ph.D. degree in physics from Yonsei University (2021) under the supervision of Prof. Kwanpyo Kim. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow and research professor at Yonsei University (2021-2024), and later as a research professor at Sungkyunkwan University (2024-2025). He also worked as a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the UC Berkeley (2021-2023). In 2025, he joined the Institute of Advanced Composite Materials at KIST. His research focuses on synthesizing low-dimensional nanomaterials and characterizing their atomic-scale structures using advanced transmission electron microscopy to explore their structure-property relationships.

Wonki Lee is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Advanced Composite Materials, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), specializing in the structural and spectroscopic characterization of low-dimensional carbon materials. He received his Ph.D. in Semiconductor and Chemical Engineering from Jeonbuk National University, conducting his doctoral research at KIST. His research centers on TEM-based microscopy, atomic-resolution structure–property analysis, and the quantitative characterization of π–σ bonding in carbon materials using STEM-EELS. His recent work explores advanced electron microscopy methodologies for correlating atomic-scale structures, bonding configurations, defects, and material properties.

She works as a senior engineer at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), China, and the research area focuses on typical properties characterization and standardization of engineering nanomaterial, particularly luminescence nanomaterials and carbon nanomaterials. As the project leader, she has developed and completed multiple international and national standards and VAMAS study. She represents China as the technical expert for ISO/TC 229 and IEC/TC 113.

Dr. Takashi Matsumoto currently serves as the Group Leader of Tokyo Electron Technology Solutions Limited’s S-Technology Development Center. He is responsible for Nano-carbon and 2D materials research and development for the cutting edge of large wafer scale semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
Dr. Matsumoto is actively engaged in international standardization activities. He is now the chairperson of Nanoelectronics Standardization Technical Committee in JEITA (Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association), and active as Japan national committee member of IEC/TC113 (Nanotechnology for Electronical Products and Systems) and domestic committee member of ISO/TC229 (Nanotechnology).
Prior to joining Tokyo Electron in 2006, he worked at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and North Carolina State University.
Dr. Matsumoto earned his Ph.D., M.E. and B.E under the supervision of Prof. Seiichi Goto at Plasma Physics Laboratory of Osaka University. His doctoral thesis focused on thin film formation research using ultra-low energy ion beam deposition.

Prof. Suguru Noda received his PhD in 1999 from The University of Tokyo, Japan, and subsequently served as an assistant professor and associate professor at the same university. He then joined Waseda University as a full professor in 2012. He is a chemical engineer conducting research in the field of materials processing. He has focused on the practical production of carbon and silicon nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes and silicon films/nanoparticles, and their applications in energy and electronic devices, including rechargeable batteries. More recently, he has been developing new technologies and systems —such as lithium-ion battery recycling and CO2-absorbing concrete— while concurrently assessing their sustainability, such as lithium-ion battery recycling and concrete that absorbs CO2, all with the goal of achieving a sustainable society.

Yoshiyuki Nonoguchi (born in Kyoto, Japan, in 1984) is a Professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Tsuyoshi Kawai. He subsequently worked as a JSPS Research Fellow (PD), including a research appointment at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) with Dr. Kenji Hata. He joined NAIST as an Assistant Professor in 2011. In 2021, he moved to Kyoto Institute of Technology as a Lecturer and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024 and Professor in 2026. His research focuses on nanomaterials chemistry and organic thermoelectrics, particularly involving carbon nanotube–based materials.

Yutaka Ohno is a professor and vice-director of Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability (IMaSS), Nagoya University, Japan. He is also a president of the Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Graphene Research Society (FNTG) in Japan since 2020. His research interest is electronics applications of nanomaterials including carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional materials.

Toshiya Okazaki is a Principal Researcher at the Nanocarbon Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in Tsukuba, Japan. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry at Kyoto University in 1999, where he investigated photoexcited relaxation dynamics in liquid phases under the supervision of Prof. Masahide Terazima. He then joined the laboratory of Prof. Hisanori Shinohara in the Department of Chemistry at Nagoya University as a research associate, working on metallofullerenes, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and fullerene-encapsulated CNTs (carbon nanopeapods).

In 2004, he moved to the Nanocarbon Research Center at AIST, led by Dr. Sumio Iijima, where he successively served as Senior Researcher, Team Leader, and Deputy Director. He currently holds the position of Principal Researcher and also serves as a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Chiba University.

His research focuses on the development of functional CNT materials, including CNT fibers and near-infrared fluorescent labels, as well as spectroscopic studies of CNTs and advanced characterization techniques for evaluating CNT dispersion states in liquids and solids.

Keigo Otsuka received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2018. From 2018 to 2020, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at RIKEN, Japan. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo. His research focuses on the synthesis and assembly of low-dimensional materials, such as carbon nanotubes, for applications in electronics, photonics, and energy harvesting devices.

Jong Hwan Park obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in 2010. He has served as a research staff member at the Energy Material Laboratory of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT). Currently, he serves as a principal researcher at the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) and is also a professor at the University of Science and Technology (UST). His research interests encompass the applications of nanohybrid materials in energy storage devices.